Special counsel asks appeals court to reverse judge's dismissal of Trump's classified docs case

A federal judge last month threw out the classified documents case against Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith filed his argument Monday urging the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a federal judge's surprise dismissal of former President Donald Trump'sagainst Trump that charged him with unlawfully retaining classified documents taken from his time in the White House and then seeking to obstruct the government's efforts to retrieve them.

Legal experts criticized the ruling as running counter to decades of legal precedent set by other judges and appeals courts, which had rejected similar challenges to special counsels or other independently appointed prosecutors dating back to the Watergate scandal.

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