The judge is actually telling the Fulton County DA to clean up the charges…..
The DA can refile, send the charges to another Grand Jury or just drop them….’
The judge gives the DA 6 months….
There are 10 MORE RICO criminal charges STILL in effect…..
The judge did NOT address the Fani Willis ability to stay on the case….
In a surprise move on Wednesday, a judge in Atlanta quashed six of the charges against former President Donald J. Trump and his allies in the sprawling Georgia election interference case, including one related to a call that Mr. Trump made to pressure Georgia’s secretary of state in early January 2021.
The judge, Scott McAfee of Fulton Superior Court, left intact the rest of the racketeering indictment, which initially included 41 counts against 19 co-defendants. Four of them have pleaded guilty since the indictment was handed up by a grand jury in August.
While the ruling was certainly a setback for prosecutors, several legal observers said on Wednesday that it did not weaken the core of the case, the state racketeering charge that was brought against all of the defendants.
That charge is based on “overt acts” that the indictment says various defendants took in furtherance of the racketeering conspiracy. The judge was explicit in stating that Wednesday’s order does not apply to those acts.
The ruling was not related to a defense effort to disqualify Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., who is leading the case. A ruling on that matter, which has made headlines for weeks after it was revealed that Ms. Willis had engaged in a romantic relationship with another prosecutor, is expected by the end of the week….
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I’m guessing if Judge McAfee was going to disqualify Fani Willis he would not have issued this ruling. But we’ll see. I’m guessing this is not the ruling Donald Trump wanted, especially a day after nearly 100,000 Republicans voted against him in the #Georgia primary..,,
Once again one must remember that just because 100000 voted against Trump in the Republican primary,that doesn’t mean they won’t vote for him in November.
Indeed I would estimate around 80% of these people who vote in November will vote for Trump.
I agree with Jack here. Most of those “protest votes” will wind up back in the Trump column in Nov.
But even 20% can make a difference in a state as close as Georgia is likely to be.
Some will stay home….
There IS gonna be a MASSIVE Negative ad throwdown AGAINST Trump in Sept and Oct…..
The point is that using the anti Trump primary vote as necessarily indicative of the GE vote is an incorrect reading of the electorate.
About a third of Republicans,at various times ,have indicated a desire for a candidate other than Trump( it should be noted that about half of Democrats have indicated that they wish Biden wouldn’t run again).
Making the assumption however that all these people are not going to vote for Trump in November is faulty reasoning as would be assuming that all those Democrats unsettled by Bidens candidacy are going to turn on him.
I agree NOT ‘All’…
But remain convinced that Trump’s vote is somewhat ‘softer’ then the polls refelct 8 months out…..