On Monday, July 15 — the opening day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee — former President Donald Trump enjoyed a major legal victory when Judge Aileen Cannon threw out special counsel Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago documents indictment. Legal experts on MSNBC predicted that Smith would appeal the decision but noted that Trump appointee Cannon’s ruling guaranteed that the case would not go to trial before the presidential election in November. Trump’s legal team claimed that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Smith as special counsel was illegitimate because h…
