Georgia Judge Dismisses Two Trump Election Case Charges

The judge handling Donald Trump's Georgia election case threw out three more charges on Thursday, including two against the former president.

Judge Scott McAfee had already tossed out six charges, three of which were against Trump.

"President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have won again," Trump's lawyer Steve Sadow said in a statement after Thursday's decision. "The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 in the indictment must be dropped."

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Trump now faces eight charges in the case. He originally had 13.

In his Thursday ruling, Judge McAfee dismissed three charges about filing false documents in federal court. He basically found that the state couldn't bring charges for alleged crimes against the federal government.

McAfee wrote that those three charges "are outside this State's power and must be dropped."

The three charges include trying to file false documents, planning to file false documents, and actually filing false documents.

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Two of Trump's co-defendants, John Eastman and Shawn Still, asked to dismiss these charges because of the supremacy clause.

In another order Thursday, McAfee refused to throw out the main racketeering - or RICO - charge, saying it is "well-formed and legally sufficient as claimed."

ABC News expert Chris Timmons, who used to be a Georgia prosecutor, said Thursday's ruling dropping the charges "is definitely good for the defense" but "it's not a big win" because the main RICO charge is still there.

"The actions in federal court can and probably will be shown at trial as 'things done to help the RICO plot' which don't have to be crimes," Timmons said.

Someone speaking for the Fulton County district attorney's office told ABC News they were looking at the order and had nothing else to say.

Trump and 18 others said they weren't guilty last year to all charges in a big racketeering case about trying to change the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

Four defendants later made deals to plead guilty in exchange for agreeing to testify against other defendants.

A Georgia appeals court stopped the case in June until they decide on an appeal about letting District Attorney Fani Willis stay on the case.

They'll hear arguments about that appeal on Dec. 5, a month after the presidential election.

The former president has strongly criticized the district attorney's investigation, calling it politically motivated.