Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by the Justice Department to investigate former President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, wants to revive the case.
He formally filed Monday to appeal a district court judge’s dismissal of the case in July.
In a fiery 81-page brief filed on Monday, Smith argued that District Court Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to dismiss the case “deviated from binding Supreme Court precedent, misconstrued the statutes that authorized the Special Counsel’s appointment, and took inadequate account of the longstanding history of Attorney General appointments of special counsels.”
