A judge dismissed the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others on Wednesday after a request from the prosecutor, making the historic racketeering prosecution the latest in a string of legal cases against Trump that have dissolved since he was reelected to a second term.
Pete Skandalakis, the executive director of Georgia’s nonpartisan prosecutor council who took over the prosecution earlier this month, filed a motion requesting to drop the case on Wednesday, which a judge later approved. In his filing, Skandalakis claimed that “it is not illegal to question or challenge election results.”
The case stemmed from a phone call between Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021, during which Trump urged Raffensperger to “f

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