Trump Seeks To Have Jack Smith’s January 6 Case Dismissed Over Questions About Whether Special Counsel’s Appointment Was Lawful
President Trump’s lawyers say the case was ‘unconstitutional even before its inception.’

President Trump is seeking to have the criminal case against him regarding January 6 dismissed, citing a judge’s ruling that threw out the classified documents case on the grounds that the special counsel, Jack Smith, was illegally appointed.
In a filing on Thursday, Trump’s lawyers asked the federal judge presiding over the January 6 case at Washington, D.C., Tanya Chutkan, to dismiss the charges on the grounds that Mr. Smith’s appointment in November 2022 by Attorney General Garland was not lawful.
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