Special Counsel Jack Smith's historic federal election subversion prosecution against Donald Trump has ended without a trial following the recent election.
WASHINGTON — The historic federal prosecution charging Donald Trump with attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election has drawn to an unprecedented close, shuttered not by a jury’s verdict or an acquittal, but by the immovable machinery of constitutional protocol and a decisive presidential election.
The case, spearheaded by Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, once promised to stage the most scrutinized criminal trial in American history. Instead, the dismissal leaves the criminal charges permanently unresolved, while cementing a landmark Supreme Court ruling on executive immunity that permanently recalibrates the constitutional boundaries of the American presidency.
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