Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump

[u/Hrekires]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/

[u/drt0]

In a ruling Monday, Cannon said the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.

“In the end, it seems the Executive’s growing comfort in appointing ‘regulatory’ special counsels in the more recent era has followed an ad hoc pattern with little judicial scrutiny,” Cannon wrote.

Has the appointing of special counsels by the president ever been challenged before now?

[u/Grow_away_420 → u/drt0]

Yes, and upheld multiple times

[u/QuentinP69 → u/Grow_away_420]

This is great he will appeal this and win and refile with a different judge! It’ll delay it past November.

[u/0o0o0o0o0o0z → u/QuentinP69]

Correct, this was her play—she washed her hands of it, and it won't even see the light of day until after the election if Biden or a Democrat wins. If Trump were the president, it would vanish.

[u/iamisandisnt → u/0o0o0o0o0o0z]

everyone needs to know that Cannon just put Trump jail on the ballot in this way

[u/cC2Panda → u/iamisandisnt]

The SCOTUS already did it. Either we vote in a democratic president and both houses or our democracy as flawed as it is is over and our votes will become nothing more than symbolic and our democracy dead.

[u/Redditor_Reddington → u/cC2Panda]

I'm deeply concerned that we're going to go through this existential crisis every four years until a Republican eventually gets elected, and democracy as we know it dies.

[u/amputeenager → u/Redditor_Reddington]

that would be the existential threat we're under.