Special counsel Jack Smith urged the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse federal judge Aileen Cannon's decision to dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump — but there's little chance she'll be removed, a columnist wrote.

Judge Aileen Cannon is more than 150 years out of date in her interpretation of the law, special counsel Jack Smith has told an appellate court. Cannon, a Trump appointee to Florida federal court, dismissed all charges against the former president in his classified documents case after claiming Smith was wrongfully appointed as special counsel.

SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH filed an appeal of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s outright dismissal of the classified documents case filed against Donald Trump in Florida. That case was widely perceived as the strongest of the four criminal indictments against Trump (the others being the January 6th indictment filed in federal court in Washington,