Special counsel Jack Smith has had a busy week.
He filed his brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit asking that court to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of his indictment in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. Cannon dismissed that indictment because she found that Smith had been unconstitutionally appointed to his position and, as a result, did not have the power to bring the indictment at all.
Legal luminaries like former Attorney General Ed Meese and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, as well as several legal scholars, filed an amicus brief supporting Trump’s argument that Smith was not properly appointed, and she ultimately agreed.
In his Washington, D.C., case against Trump, which was related to Trump’s conduct in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Smith on Tuesday sought and…
