Legal scholars say Justice Clarence Thomas may have just given the biggest clue — one that takes direct aim at the special counsel’s position and threatens to further push back Trump’s classified documents case in Florida.
The Supreme Court’s opinion this week granted Trump a wide berth of immunity and largely limited Smith’s election interference case against him in Washington. But Thomas, on his own, went one step further.
“I write separately to highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure,” Thomas wrote.