Jack Smith has dropped his case against President-elect Donald Trump.

I'm Virginia Allen, and this is The Daily Signal's top news in 10 for Monday, November 25th.

Special counsel, Jack Smith, has taken action to drop all charges against Donald Trump.

Jack Smith case against Trump is often referred to as the January 6th case.

Smith alleged that Trump sought to interfere with results of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump faced four felony charges in that

case, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official

proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

But now Smith is dropping a case altogether. Why? Well, Politico reports

that Smith said he consulted with Justice Department officials about whether or not to continue

pursuing the case against Trump now that he is president-elect Trump. According to Smith,

officials concluded that a long-standing prohibition on prosecuting a sitting

president would apply to a president-elect as well.

Attorney and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News that he

was not surprised by Smith's decision to drop the case.

Well, this is what we expected. I wrote over a year ago that there was a good chance

Jack Smith would never see the inside of a courtroom for a trial in this case.

It made this election the largest effective jury verdict in history.

By re-electing Donald Trump. The special counsel found himself at odds with his

own department's longstanding policy against the prosecution of a sitting president. But Smith did not

go quietly into that night. I expected he did get a lot of different opinions, hoping for the right one.

But the OLC, this office that handles such questions, has long taken this position. So it would

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