U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the federal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, ruling that Special Counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed. What's next for the case?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump was charged with 40 counts in the Florida case.
48% : (U.S. Senate via AP) Trump appointed Cannon to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in late 2020.
47% : She has made several rulings in the case that have been favorable to Trump, including delaying indefinitely the trial, which had been scheduled to begin May 20.
46% : Trump was charged with 32 counts of willful retention of national defense information, obstructing justice and seven other charges.
39% : U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith Nov. 18, 2022, to oversee the case, and a grand jury indicted Trump on June 9.
26% : Smith is also overseeing a separate federal case that charges Trump with interfering with the 2020 election.
21% : Garland appointed Smith to oversee two federal criminal cases against Trump: the classified documents case and an election interference case.
18% : One of his aides and a Mar-a-Lago worker also were accused of helping Trump and faced charges, which are also now dropped.
18% : Trump was accused of improperly keeping hundreds of documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and obstructing efforts by the government to retrieve them.

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