New Prosecutor Asks for Charges to be Dropped in Georgia Trump Case

The development was a victory for President Trump, who has seen three criminal cases against him dissolve since he was re-elected last year.

The Georgia official overseeing the last pending criminal case against President Trump called for those charges to be dropped on Wednesday, effectively ending the last pending criminal prosecution of the president.

The development was a victory for Mr. Trump, who has seen three criminal cases against him dissolve since he was re-elected last year. A number of his allies are also defendants in the Georgia racketeering case, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, his former personal lawyer, and Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff.

The motion seeking to end the prosecution was filed with the presiding judge in the case by Pete Skandalakis, the executive director of the state’s nonpartisan prosecutor council. The case was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats to Mr. Trump, because state criminal convictions are not subject to presidential pardons.

Mr. Skandalakis, a career prosecutor who ran for office early in his career as a Democrat but later as a Republican, shredded the case originally brought by Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, taking it apart charge by charge in a 22-page filing. He asserted that “it is not illegal to question or challenge election results.”

Mr. Skandalakis concluded that the inquiry undertaken by Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by the Justice Department under President Biden, was the more appropriate venue for an investigation of Mr. Trump’s attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election. He added that the idea of pursuing a case against a sitting president in Georgia was impractical.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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