Vice President Harris’s bid for the Democratic nomination for president comes as Special Counsel Jack Smith’s cases against President Trump have become shipwrecked in South Florida and the District of Columbia. Ms. Harris and Mr.
Smith are both prosecutors who aim to make the case against the 45th president. Trump, though, is not their first foe in a court of law — or the court of public opinion. The Californian, before acceding to the Senate, served as district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California.
Mr. Smith came up through the Department of Justice, but he was appointed by Attorney General Garland while prosecuting war crimes at the Hague. That trajectory has proven problematic, as Judge Aileen Cannon last week ruled that the special counsel’s appointment was unconstitutional.
She also dismisses the 40 charges he handed up against Trump in the Mar-a-Lago case. The special counsel has filed his notice of appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Trump’s legal team misstepped last week, when the riders registered a “Notice of deficient Appearance of Counsel filed by Emil Bove for Donald J.
Trump.” They explained that “an attorney may not electronically file through another person’s ECF [electronic court filing] account.” That error was rectified, but the 11th Circuit has reversed Judge Cannon before, and could do so again.
Judge Cannon found Mr. Smith to be “a private citizen exercising the full power of a.