Special counsel Jack Smith seeks pause in Jan. 6 case after Trump's election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : The request to freeze the case for nearly a month comes as prosecutors are mulling whether to pursue the proceeding at all now that Trump is returning to the White House.
38% : Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, tossed out all the charges on the grounds that Smith was unlawfully appointed to his post as special counsel.Smith's team has appealed Cannon's ruling to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
21% : Smith has opened discussions with department leaders about how best to wind down both the election interference case and the other federal case he pursued against Trump -- the one in Florida in which he was accused of illegally holding on to classified documents after he left office.
19% : In that filing, Trump's lawyers were expected to lay out a detailed argument for why Trump should not face trial at all on the election interference charges because of the Supreme Court's ruling this summer granting him a broad form of immunity against prosecution for official acts he took in office.

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