"A Georgia state prosecutor who took over the election interference case regarding President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results has announced he is dropping all charges in the inquiry. Georgia prosecutor Peter Skandalakis became the lead prosecutor on the case last month, after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who had originally initiated the proceedings, was disqualified from carrying it forward after a judge ruled she had an "appearance of impropriety" due to her romantic relationship with another prosecutor."
"The racketeering case - which involves Trump, his former lawyer (and former New York City mayor) Rudy Giuliani, former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, and many others - focused on the group's efforts to overturn former President Joe Biden's win in Georgia during the 2020 presidential race. The case was the last remaining criminal prosecution that Trump faced stemming from that election."
"In his Wednesday motion to drop the Georgia-based case, Skandalakis didn't appear to suggest that the facts of the case had changed, or that the defendants hadn't done anything wrong. Rather, the prosecutor acknowledged that securing a prosecution in a timely fashion would be difficult. "Given the complexity of the legal issues at hand - ranging from constitutional questions and the Supremacy Clause to immunity, jurisdiction, venue, speed"
Peter Skandalakis, who recently became lead prosecutor after Fani Willis was disqualified for an "appearance of impropriety," dropped all charges in the Georgia racketeering probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential result in Georgia. The racketeering indictment named Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and others for efforts to overturn Joe Biden's Georgia victory. The Georgia case was the last remaining criminal prosecution tied to the 2020 election after a federal case was dropped following Trump's 2024 win. Skandalakis cited the difficulty of timely prosecution given complex legal issues, immunity, jurisdiction, venue, and resource and time constraints.
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