Election overturning case against Trump dismissed due to ‘categorical’ Justice Department policy

Donald Trump, the new president of the United States, received good news on Monday after a judge granted prosecutors’ request to dismiss their case against him for overturning the election. They defended the Justice Department’s policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted.

Judge Tanya Chutkan granted Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request to dismiss the case against the president-elect “without prejudice.” That means the case could be revived if Trump leaves the White House in four years.

“Dismissal without prejudice is appropriate here,” Chutkan said. He stated that “the immunity granted to a sitting President is temporary and will expire when they leave office.”

Trump’s lawyers did not oppose the motion to dismiss the case without prejudice.

“This prohibition is categorical and does not affect the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s evidence, or the merits of the investigation, which the Government fully supports,” Smith said in his motion to dismiss.

Trump was accused of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election after Joe Biden was declared the winner. His other legal problem was the claim that he took many top-secret documents with him after leaving the White House.

Especially after Trump won the presidential race for the second time, the special counsel paused the election interference lawsuit and documents lawsuit against him.

In his motion to dismiss the cases, Smith cited the Justice Department’s long-standing policy of not indicting or prosecuting a sitting president.

“The government’s position on the merits of the defendant’s prosecution has not changed,” Smith said in his brief to Chutkan. “But the circumstances are.”

“It has long been the Justice Department’s position that the United States Constitution prohibits federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting president,” Smith said.

“As a result, this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant can take office.”

Smith also withdrew his appeal to dismiss the classified documents lawsuit against Trump. But he said he would continue to pursue the case against two defendants, Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.

Reacting to the dismissals, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung called them “a major victory for the rule of law.” “The American people and President Trump demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system, and we look forward to uniting our country,” he said in a statement. he said.