The disgraced Fani Willis brought a criminal prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia, against Donald Trump and 18 others, arising out of their attempt to reverse the apparent result of the 2020 election in that state. I wrote about Willis’s indictment here. I practiced law for 41 years, and did nothing but litigation. I have reviewed thousands of complaints, mostly civil but also many criminal ones. I have never seen two dumber complaints than the two state-court prosecutions of Trump, one in Georgia and one in New York. The Georgia complaint was a bad joke; in its hundreds of paragraphs it alleged only two criminal acts, neither of which involved Trump.
After Willis was removed from the case, it was assigned to Georgia lawyer Pete Skandalakis, who was to find someone else to pursue the case. Skandalakis couldn’t find a qualified lawyer willing to take on such an obvious turkey, so he undertook the job himself.
Today, Skandalakis filed a motion to dismiss the case, which was immediately granted by the trial judge:
In his 22-page filing, 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. He asserted that “it is not illegal to question or challenge election results.”
That pretty much says it all. It is what I wrote in August 2023.
The Democrats’ attempts to jail Donald Trump were an absolute disgrace, although, to be fair, not as disgraceful as their efforts to get him killed. It is good to see these bogus cases getting their just deserts.
