Judge Drops Three Charges Against Trump in Georgia Election Interference Case

Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba on Wednesday spoke out on Judge Scott McAfee's decision to drop three charges against the former president in the Georgia election interference case. Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted on a total of 41 counts in August, accused of conspiring to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 election win in Georgia, following a years-long investigation led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and claims the case is politically motivated. In a new ruling on Wednesday, McAfee, who is presiding over the racketeering case, quashed six counts in the indictment, including three counts against Trump accusing him in attempts to solicit former Georgia House Speaker David Ralston and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into violating their oaths of office. McAfee ruled that the allegations were not detailed enough, finding that 'the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is, in the undersigned's opinion, fatal

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What Judge McAfee dismissing counts against Trump in Georgia really meansJordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
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