By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio.- Former President Donald Trump (pictured), the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination for president, won a reprieve from prosecution on Monday when a federal judge in Florida dismissed his classified  documents case, a ruling that comes two days after he survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania and on the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It started Monday and Trump is expected to be nominated for president at the convention this week.

Defense counsel for Trump argued before the judge that the assignment of special prosecutor Jack Smith to the case was illegal and unconstitutional from the start, and thus required immediate dismissal of the case. Smith argued otherwise.

But Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida, who presided over the case involving classified documents Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago Estate in Florida after he left office and was indicted and accused of theft and other crimes, agreed with defense attorneys in a 93-page dismissal order.

“The Framers gave Congress a pivotal role in the appointment of principal and inferior officers," Judge Cannon wrote in her lengthy order. "That role cannot be usurped by the Executive Branch or diffused elsewhere — whether in this case or in another case, whether in times of heightened national need or not.”

Trump is on a winning steak since he was found guilty earlier this year on all 34 counts in a hush money case that accused him of illegally paying Porn Star Stormy Daniels to be quiet about an alleged affair he denies.

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he is immune from prosecution for official acts taken as president, putting two other criminal cases in which he is a defendant at risk for possible dismissal. He will face incumbent President Joe Biden, the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, for the Nov 5 presidential election, a rematch of the 2020 election that he lost to Biden amid controversy over the election results.

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