Blayne Alexander is an NBC News correspondent, based in Atlanta.
ATLANTA — The judge presiding over the election interference case in Georgia has dismissed some of the criminal counts against former President Donald Trump. In a ruling Wednesday, Judge Scott McAfee found that six of the counts in the indictment against Trump and some of his co-defendants, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, lacked sufficient detail. The judge left open the possibility that prosecutors could re-file the counts.
'The Court’s concern is less that the State has failed to allege sufficient conduct of the Defendants – in fact it has alleged an abundance. However, the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is,' the judge wrote, 'fatal.' Some of the dismissed counts involved Trump's call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, urging him to 'find' enough votes for him to be declared the victor in the state, which he'd lost to Joe Biden.
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