Smith asks for pause in Trump Florida document case

Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to pause proceedings in an appeal launched in President-elect Trump’s Florida documents case.

The filing comes as the court has been tasked with reviewing a lower court decision from Judge Aileen Cannon that found Smith was unlawfully appointed.

Using nearly identical language to that filed in a prior request to press pause on Trump’s election inference case, Smith team wrote the abeyance would give “the Government time to assess........

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