Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.

Judge Cannon, though, determined that he did. Mr. Smith appealed that ruling to the 11th United States Appeals Circuit ... Days after that ruling was handed down, Mr. Trump ordered the Department of ...

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon blocked the Justice Department from releasing ... Trump assumed office as the 47th president of the United States. That part of the report alleged the government ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case, in July, saying that the prosecutor who brought it, special counsel Jack Smith, had been illegally appointed by the Justice Department ... “The ...

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case, in July, saying that the prosecutor who brought it, special counsel Jack Smith, had been illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

The Department of Justice, now under new leadership, has moved to drop its appeal of the classified documents case against Donald Trump's co-defendants.