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Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of former President Donald Trump’s civil case arising out of the search warrant executed on his residence in Mar-a-Lago surprised no one—with the possible exception of Trump.

This is because Cannon had no choice, following a scathing decision by the federal court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that told Judge Cannon she lacked any authority to have taken the case to begin with—much less to...

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