Former President Donald Trump is gleeful at the ruling that dismissed the classified documents case, Fox News' Bret Baier reported on Monday morning.
The case was dismissed by District Judge Aileen Cannon, a far-right jurist herself appointed by Trump, who has generated controversy for months over a series of decisions that appear calculated to tilt the trial in her favor.
She relied on a Supreme Court concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas to rule that special counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed, an unprecedented decision that stands against years of legal understanding of how the special counsel regulations work.
Trump, according to Baier, is "thrilled and really praising Judge Cannon."
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Legal experts have slammed the ruling, saying that it gives Smith grounds to go to the appeals court and have her removed and the case reinstated.
Nevertheless, it appears impossible that the matter can be resolved before the election; the case was already on indefinite hold while Cannon resolved a huge pile of pretrial motions she has been accused of sitting on for months.
