Florida Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday dismissed former President Donald Trump's indictment on the classified documents, arguing that the appointment and funding of special counsel Jack Smith is illegal and goes against the Constitution's Appointments Clause.
Smith's team vehemently rejected the arguments in hearings before the U.S. District Judge last month. "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," reads a passage of Cannon's ruling.
