Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion to drop his election subversion case and his classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump, CNN first reported Monday.

Citing a longstanding rule from the Justice Department that it can’t charge a sitting president with a crime, Smith wrote in his six-page filing that “prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated” on Jan. 20, 2025.

Last year, Trump was indicted on four felonies in........

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