A judge on Wednesday dismissed the long-running case accusing U.S. President Donald Trump and several associates of attempting to overturn the 2020 election results in the southern state of Georgia.

The ruling came after prosecutor Pete Skandalakis urged Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee to end the case, arguing it falls under federal, not state, jurisdiction — marking the collapse of the last of several criminal prosecutions targeting Trump before he returned to office in January.

The prosecutor referred in the 23-page filing to a federal investigation led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who withdrew his own charges in late 2024 after Trump’s reelection.

“Indeed, if Special Counsel Jack Smith, with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal… concluded that prosecution wo

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