Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

The Justice Department has abandoned all criminal proceedings against President Donald Trump's two co-defendants in the classified documents case against him in Florida, foreclosing the chance the case against them could ever be revived.