Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump Dismissed

A georgia judge dismissed the 2020 election interference case against President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies and supporters Wednesday after the case’s new prosecutor moved for all charges to be dropped – saying pursuing the matter would be “unproductive.”

The dismissal means Trump no longer faces any open criminal cases after a pair of federal cases led by former special prosecutor Jack Smith were tossed last year.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee threw out the case less than an hour after Peter Skandalakis – who appointed himself as prosecutor after he failed to find anyone else willing to take the job following the ouster of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis – filed a motion to dismiss the case against Trump and 14 other co-defendants.

“This case is hereby dismissed in its entirety,” McAfee wrote in a one-paragraph ruling.

Skandalakis, the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, acknowledged in his 23-page filing that the case “is on life support and the decision [on] what to do with it falls on me and me alone” before concluding that the appropriate authority to bring charges was former special counsel Smith – who dropped his federal version of the Georgia indictment following Trump’s election in 2024, citing longstanding Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president.

“[I]f Special Counsel Jack Smith, with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal, after reviewing the evidence in this case and considering the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States, along with the years of litigation such a case would inevitably entail, concluded that prosecution would be fruitless,” Skandalakis wrote, “then I too find that, despite the available evidence, pursuing the prosecution of all those involved in State of Georgia v. Donald Trump, et al. on essentially federal grounds would be equally unproductive.”