Breaking: Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump

novembre 26, 2025

A Georgia judge dropped the final election interference case against Donald Trump, bringing to a close the last remaining legal effort to hold the president responsible for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Pete Skandalakis, executive director of Georgia’s nonpartisan prosecutor council, filed a motion Wednesday to dismiss the prosecution. Three cases against Trump have been dismissed since he took office last November for his second term; however, this case in Georgia was especially consequential, because state charges do not fall under the pervue of presidential pardons.

“It is not illegal to question or challenge election results,” Skandalakis said.

The Supreme Court clarified in a ruling last year that presidents have “absolute immunity” for actions taken as part of their official duties, complicating the prosecution’s effort to hold Trump responsible for pressuring Georgia officials to overturn his election loss in the state. To decipher where and how immunity applies in the Georgia case would take years, potentially extending far beyond when the president’s term expires in 2029, Skandalakis explained.

"Bringing this case before a jury in 2029, 2030 or even 2031 would be nothing short of a remarkable feat," Skandalakis wrote, adding that "the citizens of Georgia are not served by pursuing this case in full for another five to ten years."

Other defendants in the Georgia racketeering case included Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s former personal lawyer, and Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff during the president’s first term. The case alleged that Trump and 18 co-conspirators pressured Georgia election officials to change the results of the election, as well as send alternate electors to cast ballots.

Skandalakis said a more appropriate avenue to bring charges against the president was through Special Counsel Jack Smith’s inquiry. That case, the federal version of the Georgia case, was also dismissed after the president’s reelection.

"[I]f Special Counsel Jack Smith, with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal, after reviewing the evidence in this case and considering the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States, along with the years of litigation such a case would inevitably entail, concluded that prosecution would be fruitless," Skandalakis wrote, "then I too find that, despite the available evidence, pursuing the prosecution of all those involved in State of Georgia v. Donald Trump, et al. on essentially federal grounds would be equally unproductive."