Federal prosecutors moved on Wednesday to drop their last remaining efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case brought by the former special counsel Jack Smith.

In a single-page filing, prosecutors asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to dismiss an appeal that had been filed before Trump took office seeking to reinstate criminal charges against the two men, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.

If the appeals court agrees to drop the government’s challenge, it would be the formal end of the case in which Trump was accused of illegally holding onto classified materials. He was also charged with conspiring with Nauta and De Oliveira to obstruct the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve them.

The case ended up in front of the appeals court this summer after Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, dismissed the charges in their entirety. Her ruling determined — against decades of legal precedent — that Smith had been unlawfully appointed to his post as special counsel.

— The New York Times