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Jack Smith, who has been specially appointed by the US government to prosecute criminal cases against Donald Trump, has asked a court in Miami to pause an appeal procedure in the document case against the ex-president, court documents from the court show, according to the Reuters news agency.
The case is about Donald Trump taking classified documents home from the White House to his residence in Florida after his last term as president.
A judge dismissed the case in July, which prosecutors from Jack Smith’s legal team appealed. They have now asked to have until December 2nd to make a legal assessment of whether it is possible to conduct the case when Donald Trump has been elected as president.
The team has already had another case put on hold. This is the case where Trump is accused of trying to overturn the US presidential election when he lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
Prosecutors are expected to resign
According to several media, Jack Smith has decided to resign before Donald Trump is sworn in in January. Trump has said he will fire Jack Smith within two seconds if he is still in the position when Trump takes office.
Both the storming of Congress and the classified documents are federal cases. This means that there is a violation of laws that cover the entire United States, and therefore not just individual states.
Donald Trump is also accused in a lawsuit in the state of Georgia. Here the accusation reads that Trump tried to influence the election results in 2020. Many legal complications have delayed the case, which is expected to be put on hold while Trump is president.
In addition, the sentencing is expected to be postponed in the case where Trump has been found guilty in a court in New York of falsifying accounts in connection with payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep his mouth shut about an alleged affair. The sentencing is scheduled to take place on November 26. However, the judge in the case must first decide whether Trump can be convicted at all, or whether the case must be dropped. That decision was postponed by at least a week on Tuesday, so it will come down on Tuesday at the earliest.
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Source: politiken.dk
