Judge dismisses several counts against Trump in Georgia election criminal case, others still remain

• A judge dismissed six counts in the Georgia criminal election interference case against former President Donald Trump and five other defendants.
• But other criminal counts against Trump and the defendants remain after the order by Judge Scott McAfee.
• The counts related to efforts by the defendants to get members of Georgia's legislature and the secretary of state to delegitimize the election victory of President Joe Biden over Trump in the state's 2020 contest.

A judge on Wednesday dismissed six counts in the Georgia criminal election interference case against former President Donald Trump and five other defendants, ruling that an indictment failed to sufficiently explain the basis for those charges.

But other criminal counts against Trump and the defendants remain after the order by Judge Scott McAfee.

The dismissed counts had accused Trump and the others of the crime of solicitation of violation of oath by public officer.

The counts related to efforts by the defendants to get members of Georgia's legislature and the secretary of state to delegitimize the election victory of President Joe Biden over Trump in the state's 2020 contest.

Defense lawyers for Trump and the others argued, among other things, that the indictment charging them with that specific count did "not detail the exact term of the oaths that are alleged to have been violated," McAfee noted in his order.

McAfee agreed, saying that the language in the indictment accusing the defendants of soliciting elected officials to violate their oaths to the U.S. and Georgia constitutions "is so generic as to compel" dismissal of the charges.

"On its own, the United States Constitution contains hundreds of clauses, any one of which can be the subject of a lifetime's