U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has pretty much already closed the book on any possibility she will toss former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case in Washington, D.C. based on theories that special counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed, former federal Judge John E. Jones told CNN’s Boris Sanchez on Thursday afternoon. The argument that Smith, not being a Senate-confirmed prosecutor, has no authority to bring federal cases was first proposed by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a concurrence to the ruling that granted a presumption of immunity to presiden…