Win for Trump: Judge Tosses Two Counts Against Former President in Fani Willis’ Indictment
A judge tossed two counts against former President Donald Trump Thursday in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
While Judge Scott McAfee declined to toss 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 co-defendants. Willis indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023 for allegedly interfering in the 2020 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 statement. “The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 in the indictment must be quashed/dismissed.”
McAfee tossed counts 14, 15, and 27 of the indictment, which contained allegations related to filing false documents in federal court.
As a whole, McAfee found the indictment is “within the scope of state authority under the appointment powers granted in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution and the police powers reserved by the states in the 10th Amendment.” (Read more from “Win for Trump: Judge Tosses Two Counts Against Former President in Fani Willis’ Indictment” HERE)
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