A US judge has dismissed a criminal case over Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, in a major legal victory for the former president days after he survived an assassination attempt.
Judge Aileen Cannon ruled on Monday that the appointment of Jack Smith, the outside lawyer chosen by the Department of Justice to manage the investigation, had violated the US constitution.
The judge, a Trump nominee, said attorney-general Merrick Garland’s 2022 appointment of Smith “effectively usurps” Congress’s authority to make such decisions, thereby “threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of powers”.
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