Judge grants dismissal of Jan. 6 case against Trump [View all]
Source: NPR Washington Desk
A federal judge dismissed the Jan. 6 election interference case against Donald Trump hours after federal prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss both that case and the Mar-a-Lago documents cases against Trump.
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the case without prejudice.
The move was widely expected. Just a day after the election, special counsel Jack Smith, who headed the investigations, began to unwind the federal cases against Trump: the first for clinging to power in 2020, events that resulted in the storming of the U.S. Capitol; the second for hoarding classified documents and obstructing FBI efforts to retrieve them.
The "Department's position is that the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated," Smith said in the filing related to the Jan. 6 case. "And although the Constitution requires dismissal in this context, consistent with the temporary nature of the immunity afforded a sitting President, it does not require dismissal with prejudice."
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