{UAH} TRUMP'S CONFIDENTIAL FLORIDA CASE HAS BEEN TOSSED => Unlike Allan Barigye the rest of us are actually moving on

Trump’s Florida case stunningly dismissed after judge finds appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution

By Social Links forPriscilla DeGregory and

 

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Published July 15, 2024, 10:03 a.m. ET

In a stunning move, former President Donald Trump’s confidential documents case was tossed out by a federal judge in Florida on Monday — eliminating one of his biggest legal liabilities just 113 days before the Nov. 5 election.

Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case against the Republican presidential candidate, which was widely viewed as the most serious of four criminal cases he faces, on the grounds that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith to the case violated the Constitution.

“I am thrilled that a judge had the courage and wisdom to do this. This has big, big implications not just for this case but for other cases,” Trump told Fox News in an interview moments after the ruling.

“The special counsel worked with everybody to try to take me down. This is a big, big deal. It only makes the convention more positive — this will be an amazing week”

Trump, 78, faced up to 450 years in prison if convicted on all counts in the case.

The ex-president was accused of hoarding troves of confidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago home after he left office and then attempting to cover it up.

Cannon ruled that Congress was required to appoint “constitutional officers” and the legislature was also needed to approve spending for such a prosecution.

“That role cannot be usurped by the executive branch or diffused elsewhere – whether in this case or in another case, whether in times of heightened national need or not,” Cannon wrote.

The judge wrote the “Special Counsel Smith’s investigation has unlawfully drawn funds from the Indefinite Appropriation.”

Smith is the prosecutor in the second federal case against Trump for challenging the results of the 2020 election, meaning that Cannon’s ruling is likely to reverberate in the courts. That case is being overseen by federal judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, whom Trump has derided as biased against him.

Trump and his valet Walt Nauta were indicted in the classified records case in June 2023 following a dramatic FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022.

In a remarkable coincidence just hours before Cannon’s ruling, Trump told The Post’s Michael Goodwin that “we hear” that President Biden and the Justice Department — rather than the judge — would be dropping the case and additional federal charges related to the 2020 election after the failed assassination attempt against him on Saturday.

The Department of Justice and lawyers for Trump both did not immediately return requests for comment Monday.

This is a developing story. Please check back for more updates.

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