US special counsel Jack Smith has appealed a ruling which dismissed the case regarding classified documents retained by former president Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after he left the White House. Federal judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, dismissed that case in mid-July, citing doubts about the legality of the US Justice Department’s appointment of Smith. In a Monday brief, Smith argued that Cannon’s decision to throw out the case “conflicts with an otherwise unbroken course of decisions… and it is at odds with widespread and longstanding appointment practices in…