A judge's stunning decision to dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump brought an abrupt halt to what experts have considered the strongest and most straightforward of the ...

Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — The federal judge overseeing the case alleging ...

A federal judge has dismissed the case against former President Donald Trump for allegedly hoarding classified documents, arguing the prosecutor who brought the case was illegally appointed by the ...

A Florida federal judge dismissed the criminal case against former President Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents, writing that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith in the ...

Even after a year of exasperating proceedings that featured several breaks from normal judicial procedure and that culminated in a shock ruling dismissing the classified documents indictment against ...

UPDATE: Special Counsel Jack Smith will appeal a judge’s order dismissing the classified documents case against Donald Trump. Peter Carr, a spokesman for Smith, said in a statement to reporters, “The ...

A judge in Florida has dismissed the case against former President Trump's handling of classified documents. Trump had faced charges stemming from special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into his ...

Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the entire case should be thrown out because the appointment of the special counsel who brought the case, Jack Smith, had violated the Constitution. He indicated he ...