A judge in Georgia on Wednesday dismissed several of the criminal counts in the election interfrence case against former President Donald Trump and five co-defendents.
Other criminal counts against Trump and said co-defendants still remain, however. The order was handed down on Wednsday by Judge Scott McAfee.
The counts tossed by McAfee accused the former President and others of solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer.
The counts are related to alleged efforts by the defendants to get members of the Georgia legislature, as well as the secretary of state, to delegitimize the election victory of President Joe Biden over Trump in the 2020 election contest.
Judge McAfee said he was dismissing those counts because the language in the indictment accusing the defendants of soliciting elected officials to violate their oaths to the U.S. and Georgia constitutions "is so generic as to compel" the requested dismissal of the charges.
"On its own, the United States Constitution contains hundreds of clauses, any one of which can be the subject of a lifetime's study," McAfee wrote.
The defense team for Trump and others had argued that the language in the indictment charging him and his co-defendants did "not detail the exact term of the oaths that are alleged to have been violated," McAfee noted in his order.
