DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Georgia judge tossed two counts against former President Donald Trump on Thursday in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Although Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court declined to throw out the whole indictment under the Constitution’s supremacy clause, he found that some charges did “lie beyond this state’s jurisdiction,” including the two counts against Trump and another against his co-defendants.
Willis indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others in August 2023, alleging that they interfered in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
“President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again,” Steve Sadow, lead counsel for Trump in the Fulton County case, said in a formal statement. “The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 in the…
