President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team filed an emergency motion Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking to block former Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing a “report” on the case.
Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, threw out Smith’s prosecution of Trump in the so-called “documents” case, which was already riddled with procedural problems, last July. She accepted the defense argument that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional, since he was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate and was not a U.S. Attorney.
Trump’s legal team argued that Smith therefore has no authority to issue a report, and that doing so would not only hurt Trump, but would also damage the remaining two defendants in the case, Walt Nauta and Carlos
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