Jack Smith’s Withdrawal From Mar-a-Lago Case Against Trump Raises the Question: Was His Case Ever Valid?

A legal scholar tells the Sun that, if the prosecutor were unlawfully appointed, the counts against the 45th president and his employees could be invalid from their inception.

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Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on August 1, 2023 at Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s handoff of his troubled classified documents criminal case to the United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida is a bowing to legal reality — and a sign of defiance that Mr. Smith intends for his case to carry on even without him. Are those charges, though, still viable? 

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