Special Counsel Jack Smith’s admission that his cases against President Trump are over comes with a caveat: He wants to preserve the possibility that his cases, which he has pursued with zeal, can, like the biblical Lazarus, come alive again in four years. 

The Sun reported on the possibility that the cases could be dismissed on terms favorable to the special prosecutor before Mr. Smith made his motions. He did, in asking Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the election interference case, acknowledged that the prohibition against prosecuting a sitting president is “categorical.”