A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed the high-profile case accusing Donald Trump and his associates of attempting to overturn the 2020 election, effectively ending the last criminal proceeding still looming over the president as he returns to office.
The ruling followed a forceful push from prosecutor Pete Skandalakis, who urged Judge Scott McAfee to shut the Georgia case down, arguing it belonged in federal hands, not state courts. With that, the only remaining legal front in the sprawling battle over Trump's post-election conduct fell away.
"LAW and JUSTICE have prevailed in the Great State of Georgia," Trump posted as he celebrated the ruling on Truth Social.
He called the case an "Illegal, Unconstitutional, and unAmerican Hoax", although several codefendants were convicted, and said it should have "never been brought" in a lengthy statement that repeated his false claims that the election was rigged.
The Republican president faced a slew of federal charges following his first term in office, including conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election and hoarding allegedly classified documents that the government said should not have been removed from the White House.
