Judge dismisses classified documents case against Trump - West Hawaii Today

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : It handed Trump a major legal victory two days after he was wounded in a shooting at a campaign rally and at the very onset of the political pageant where he is set to formally become his party's presidential nominee.
43% : The ruling by Cannon, who was put on the bench by Trump in his final year in office, flew in the face of previous court decisions reaching back to the Watergate era that upheld the legality of the ways in which independent prosecutors have been put into their posts.
40% : A three-judge panel from that court handed Cannon a stern rebuke nearly two years ago, reversing a decision she made that favored Trump shortly after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida.
39% : Should Trump be elected president again, he could simply have his Justice Department dismiss the case if it is reinstated on appeal -- and even if he does not, long-standing Justice Department policy forbids prosecuting a sitting president.
30% : In a statement on his social media platform, Trump said the decision dismissed what he described as a "Lawless Indictment."He wrote that the decision should be followed "quickly by the dismissal of ALL the Witch Hunts," referring to the three other criminal indictments filed against him last year, as well as civil cases he has faced.
28% : And she invited Congress to pass a new law if legislators wanted Smith to keep pursuing the case against Trump.
27% : The classified documents case, which is being heard in U.S. District Court in Fort Pierce, Florida, once appeared to be the most straightforward of the four criminal prosecutions that Trump has faced.
27% : "Her decision to dismiss the case came two weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas expressed his own doubts about how Smith got his job in a brief concurrence to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling granting Trump broad immunity against criminal prosecution.

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