Nov 26, 2025 minute read

The Georgia prosecutor who took over the 2020 election case against President Donald Trump and other co-defendants from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has dropped the case. Willis was disqualified from the case in 2024, and prosecutor Pete Skandalakis took up the case. 

Skandalakis said his decision was “not guided by a desire to advance an agenda but is based on my beliefs and understanding of the law.” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered the case be “dismissed in its entirety” shortly after Skandalakis’ filing to drop the case.  

Skandalakis wrote, “This entire case, from the initiation of the District Attorney’s investigation in 2021 to the present, is without precedent. A former President of the United States was indicted, along with 18 others, in a RICO indictment unequalled in Georgia history for its sweeping, nationwide scope, alleging 161 overt acts, 41 criminal counts, and 30 unindicted co-conspirators. The District Attorney who initiated the investigation was ordered to remove herself or her special assistant from the case.

“Meanwhile, on July 1, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Trump v. United States. While that disqualification was being appealed, Donald J. Trump was re-elected as President. One month later, the Court of Appeals disqualified the District Attorney and her entire office. Before the Georgia Supreme Court could hear the District Attorney’s appeal, the former president was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Eight months later, the Georgia Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, and the disqualification stood.”

“Never before, and hopefully never again, will our country face circumstances such as these,” he wrote, noting that the case is “nearly five years removed from President Trump’s phone call with the Secretary of State,” and that “There is no realistic prospect that a sitting President will be compelled to appear in Georgia to stand trial on the allegations in this indictment.” If Trump were to appear in 2029 after his term concluded, “an immediate jury trial would be impossible.”

“Litigating the immunity issues identified in Trump v. United States would require months, if not years, assuming the State could even prevail at the state level on these vigorously contested questions of presidential immunity. In dismissing his federal case, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith acknowledged that unresolved legal questions remain concerning the scope of presidential immunity, as reflected in his Report of Special Counsel Smith, Volume I.”

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