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Smith is outmaneuvering the Supreme Court majority by presenting a threshold question for Judge Chutkan to decide: Is a candidate campaigning for president who happens to be the incumbent operating in an official presidential capacity?

Bang! Now what?

Every federal judge is appointed by a president, and most of them go on to set aside the affiliations that got them there. But Cannon, at virtually every turn, has weighed in for Trump or against the government, despite what the law requires.

It could be for the best, in the Justice Department’s view, that Judge Cannon didn’t grant the government’s requested date in Florida.

The 1870s laws passed by the Reconstruction Congress to enforce 14th Amendment rights and to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, are now being used against Trump.

Two and half years in the making, special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment presents a devastating case laced with telling detail