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........