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A Georgia judge dismissed two criminal counts against President Donald Trump regarding the state’s 2020 election interference case and another against the president’s allies.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled that the prosecutors were not able to bring the charges forward because they “lie beyond this State’s jurisdiction.”
“Punishment for filing certain documents would enable a state to constrict the scope of materials assessed by a federal court and impair the administration of justice in that tribunal,” McAfee wrote in the ruling.
“However, unlike the many other challenges raised by the Defendants, the impact of Presidential immunity has not been fully briefed or argued by the parties, and this order does not reach that issue,” he added in a footnote.
Celebrating the monumental legal win, Trump attorney Steve Sadow posted Thursday to X, “President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again.”
“The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 in the indictment must be quashed/dismissed,” he wrote.
The now-dead charges against Trump were previously brought against him by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has recently faced scrutiny due to her alleged romantic relationship with Nathan Wade—a prosecutor she hired to go after the president.
Shortly after news of the reported affair was made public, Wade left the case, Fox News reported.
Judge McAfee also previously dismissed six charges against President Trump, Fox added, dissolving them over Willis’ failure to provide sufficient detail.
Trump previously faced 13 charges over allegations of interference in the Georgia 2020 presidential election. After Thursday’s ruling, the president’s ongoing charges have dropped to eight, The Hill reported.
The president has continually maintained his innocence in these charges, and has filed a motion to disqualify Willis from the case.
Per Fox News, the Georgia Court of Appeals will not hear the president’s appeals case until Dec. 5—one month after the presidential election.
