Consider this a Thanksgiving surprise, as Merrick Garland’s turkey of a lawfare case gets an early axe. Special counsel Jack Smith had requested and received a delay until next Monday to determine how and whether to proceed with the one remaining indictment against Donald Trump for election interference.
Instead, Smith moved to dismiss it a week early, and that matters:
Special counsel Jack Smith has moved to dismiss his federal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump due to a long-standing Justice Department policy that bars the prosecution of a sitting president.
Nearly 16 months after a grand jury first indicted Trump over his alleged efforts to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election, Smith has asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to throw out the case ahead of Trump’s impending inauguration, according to a motion…
