Special counsel Jack Smith has formally filed an appeal of District Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to dismiss the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against former President Donald Trump to the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge whose rulings have drawn criticism for consistently benefiting the former president, cited a concurrence by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to rule that Smith was not properly appointed as special counsel because he was not confirmed by a vote of the Senate. But in the appeal, Smith points out that this interpretation of …