Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to throw out serious national-security criminal charges in the classified documents case against Donald Trump is legally unsupported, ignores decades of precedent and is deeply dangerous.
Her decision is quite unlikely to survive the tests of time, or even the appeal Mr. Smith’s office said he intends to make.
But it will further delay a case that has moved so slowly under her direction that it was already virtually certain it would never go to a jury before Election Day.
Judge Cannon asserts that no law of Congress authorizes the special counsel.
The special counsel regulations were drafted under specific congressional laws authorizing them.
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