Georgia Election Case Against Trump Continues Under New Prosecutor

The Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and several allies will continue — at least for now — under new leadership.

Peter Skandalakis, director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, announced that he will personally oversee the case after being unable to find another prosecutor willing to take it on. The move follows the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who originally launched the racketeering case in 2023.

Skandalakis said he recently received the case file from Willis’ office, which included 101 boxes of documents and an eight-terabyte hard drive of evidence. A pretrial status conference has been scheduled for December 1 before Judge Scott McAfee, who ordered prosecutors to announce whether they plan to seek a superseding indictment.

Legal experts, however, remain skeptical about the case’s future. Former U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore said the case may be “dead on arrival,” pointing to political controversy and the Supreme Court’s immunity decision as possible grounds for dismissal.

The high-profile case, which charged Trump and 18 co-defendants under Georgia’s RICO statute, stems from efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. The investigation was initially triggered by Trump’s phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, urging him to “find” enough votes to change the outcome.

While several defendants have taken plea deals, Trump and others maintain their innocence, arguing they were pursuing legitimate challenges to the election. The case, once considered the most likely of Trump’s legal battles to go to trial, now faces uncertainty under its new leadership.

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