Court to consider former Clinton investigator turned Trump impeachment lawyer’s argument that Judge Cannon ‘correctly dismissed’ Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago case

Robert Ray, Aileen Cannon

Left: Trump’s Ukraine impeachment attorney, former Clinton independent counsel Robert Ray, addresses the U.S. Senate on Jan 27, 2020, calls the case partisan (PBS/YouTube). Right: Judge Aileen Cannon (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida).

Signaling something of a continuation of the amici curiae fight over special counsel Jack Smith’s authority that preceded Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to toss Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Monday allowed the former Whitewater independent counsel, a law professor, and a legal organization to file a brief saying the dismissal didn’t go far enough.

The 11th Circuit on Monday issued a short order granting the amici curiae (or “friends of the court”) — Robert Ray, the originalist Landmark Legal Foundation, Ray, and law professor Seth Barrett Tillman — permission to file their brief.

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