Georgia judge throws out two more criminal charges against Trump in election interference case

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia has dropped two more of the charges against him.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has once again slightly narrowed the scope of a sweeping indictment against the former president and more than a dozen of his allies, who are accused of joining a criminal enterprise to overturn his election loss in 2020 through a pressure campaign mounted against state officials and election workers.

Judge McAfee had dismissed three other counts against the former president earlier this year.

His decision on Thursday determined that two of the counts against the former president could no longer stand because they involve allegations of perjury or false statements that he says should fall under federal jurisdiction.

Because those counts “lie beyond this State’s jurisdiction and must be quashed, the Defendants’ motions to dismiss the indictment under the Supremacy Clause are granted in part,” he wrote.

The judge did not, however, dismiss the entire indictment.

Trump was initially charged with 13 counts in the 41-count indictment. The top charge of racketeering under the state’s RICO statute – used to prosecute organized crime and break up criminal gangs — remains.

Trump’s attorney Steve Sadow celebrated the decision.

“President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again,” he said in a statement on Thursday.

The case is effectively frozen while Trump and his co-defendants appeal a decision that kept Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the prosecution team after she had a relationship with a special prosecutor.

That appeal won’t be heard until December.

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