Judge Dismisses Trump Classfied Documents Case: LI Expert Weighs In

FORT PIERCE, FL — As the Republican National Convention opens in Milwaukee with presumptive nominee Donald Trump, the former president got a win on Monday as the classified documents case was dismissed.

Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, agreed with the defense that Special Counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed, the Associated Press reported.

Long Island experts reacted to the news, which came after Trump was injured during a shooting at a rally this weekend.

“Judge Cannon, whose competencies have been regularly exceeded by this matter, defies the clear precedent that she is bound to apply and defies the history in which the appointments of numerous special counsels have been repeatedly upheld," James Sample, Hofstra University constitutional law professor, said.

Trump faced dozens of felony counts accusing him of illegally keeping boxes of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and obstructing FBI efforts to get them back.

Smith can appeal Cannon ruling, but "even if [it's] overturned on the law, she will have succeeded in the perpetual effort to delay any semblance of legal process that might hold Mr. Trump accountable," Sample told Patch.

Defense lawyers filed multiple challenges to the case, including a "legally technical one that asserted that special counsel Jack Smith had been illegally appointed" under the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, the AP said.

"Her decision is at odds with the opinions of eight justices even on the current Supreme Court," Sample said.