Subj : Re: Documents Case Tossed
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 15:04:15

 > >>In any case it is an embarrassment that a federal judge in the USA would
 > pull >> such a stunt.

 > > Toss a case because the special council was not properly appointed?

 > That is not what happened.

Federal judge dismisses Trump classified documents case over concerns with
prosecutor's appointment

SOURCE:  The Associated Press https://apnews.com/article/trump-classified-docum
ents-smith-c66d5ffb7ba86c1b991f95e89bdeba0c

"A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents case against
former President Donald Trump on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said
the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed by the
Justice Department.

"Defense lawyers filed multiple challenges to the case, including legally
technical ones that asserted that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment by
Attorney General Merrick Garland violated the Constitution's Appointments
Clause because it did not go through Congress and that Smith's office was
improperly funded by the Justice Department.

"Cannon agreed, writing Monday that Garland had exceeded his bounds by
appointing a prosecutor without Senate approval and confirmation and had
undermined the authority of Congress.

"'The Special Counsel's position effectively usurps that important
legislative authority, transferring it to a Head of Department, and in the
process threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of
powers,' Cannon wrote in a 93-page order that granted the defense team's
request to dismiss the case but did not dissect the substance of the
allegations against Trump."

Other stories that say the same thing.  The first one even says "unlawfully
appointed" in the link (unlawful = illegal):

SOURCE: Reuters https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-tosses-trump-documents-case
-ruling-prosecutor-unlawfully-appointed-2024-07-15/

SOURCE: CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/classified-documents-case-t
rump-dismissed-aileen-cannon/index.html

SOURCE: The Washington Post https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/classified-
documents-case-trump-dismissed-aileen-cannon/index.html

SOURCE: The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/15/us/trump-documents-case-dismissed

So, oh great glorious fountain of knowledge, exactly WTF do you think happened?

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