Georgia judge dismisses six charges

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"I just want to find 11,780 votes," he told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger [on tape!].

So vague! Gosh, who knows what he was talking about.

Snark aside, I’m not too surprised or dismayed by this. When you have a former president and a current candidate for the presidency, even when he’s guilty as hell, you bend over backwards to give the impression of neutrality.

And Willis is allowed to refile charges with “greater specificity”. I hope she does.

I also hope the judge will release his decision on Willis soon. Titillation aside, there’s zero evidence of conflict of interest (or even appearance of conflict of interest).

I would hope the judge acknowledges that, and soon.

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Ca Bob wrote:
The judge points out that there is lots of evidence, but the prosecution needed to have specified specific felony statutes, or something like that.

I wonder if we all might be better off if the prosecution just lets it go so that it can hold the trial as soon as possible. They have plenty of indictments -- enough for all the defendants -- and if the jury were going to find guilty on the ones that are now gone, then they will also probably find them guilty on the remainder.

I wonder if the lost charges could be filed after the remainder have been decided on?

That would be the issue. Just keep moving or refile them?

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Great strategy. Trump will publicly declare more evidence and new charges will be laid.

[$tevie]

I know everyone thinks Fani Willis is our new pee tape Access Hollywood tape Bob Mueller First Impeachment Second Impeachment Merrick Garland but I think she should have gone after Trump in a clean machete fashion, and done the RICO thing afterward. This was always going to take too long and it's just getting weaker every day.

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$tevie wrote:
I know everyone thinks Fani Willis is our new pee tape Access Hollywood tape Bob Mueller First Impeachment Second Impeachment Merrick Garland but I think she should have gone after Trump in a clean machete fashion, and done the RICO thing afterward. This was always going to take too long and it's just getting weaker every day.

Yeah disappointing but predicted.


I'm back at where I started. This should have been a federal charge against Trump for election interference.
Let the state deal with the people who were given voter data in that small county, plus the officials who helped them. They've already gotten several guilty pleas on that.

The feds have much deeper resources and frankly better attorneys.

Speaking of attorneys, Trump has hired top notch people in Georgia, they are not playing. He is obviously taking the charges very seriously despite his rhetoric.

The phone call thing is the linchpin of the case. Willis can strengthen and refile the indictments but that delays the trial even more.