Posted on 07/15/2024 8:59:32 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump in an order Monday morning over the manner in which special counsel Jack Smith was appointed.
“The Superseding Indictment is DISMISSED because Special Counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution,” wrote Judge Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by the former president.
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KEY FACTS
• Cannon sided with Trump’s request to dismiss the charges against him under the Constitution’s Appointment Clause, as the ex-president claimed Smith’s appointment by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland violated the law.
• Trump was indicted on 40 federal felony charges for allegedly withholding national security information by bringing White House documents—including classified materials—back to Mar-a-Lago with him, and for allegedly obstructing the government’s investigation into retrieving the documents.
• The judge—a Trump appointee—ruled someone with Smith’s level of power should only have been appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
• She also ruled Smith’s appointment violated the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause, because Congress had not appropriated funds to Smith’s investigations as required under federal law.
• Cannon ordered the case to be closed, but noted in her order that the ruling does not affect any other legal proceedings—meaning it will not end the separate federal case against Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
• The Justice Department said in a statement that it had authorized the Special Counsel’s Office to appeal the order, while Trump said on Truth Social on Monday the dismissal was a “first step,” calling for all the cases against him to be dismissed and “to END all Weaponization of our Justice System.”
The good, holier-than-thou mother must have fallen on her head and all memories of the endless Ukie propaganda spam, she posted has magically been erased from her brain.
You can’t make this zeeper insanity up! 😅🤣😂
Do you not see the irony in complaining about her posting about Ukraine too much and then you complaining about it on a thread that has nothing to do with Putin’s crime?
The people posting about the war in Ukraine just after Trump got shot were the FRussians, not the “Ukies”. They didn’t really even care. They just use conservatism as a tool to get support for Russia by manipulating FReeper’s emotions.
Blah, blah, blah....
Was I posting to you?
I didn’t think so!
It is very strange and hilarious to post Ukraine propaganda for years and all of a sudden, the holier-than-thou mother has no recollection??? 😅🤣
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining!
Ciao
What are you even talking about? Have you had genetic testing to see if you have an extra chromosome?
Was I posting to you? I didn’t think so!
Maybe don't post it on a public forum if you don't want comments, Einstein.
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