While Wednesday’s news has seen a surprise or two, one item that doesn’t fall into that category is the now formal move by Special Counsel Jack Smith to ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to pause proceedings before it on his office’s appeal of the classified documents case dismissal in light of the November 5 election.
Smith’s office already moved to vacate the briefing schedule in the D.C. case pertaining to the 2020 election, which motion was granted by Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday. The plan there is to inform the court of his office’s plans for proceeding by no later than December 2.
And earlier on Wednesday, we noted that Smith is preparing to pack things up and resign ahead of Trump’s inauguration.
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