The Georgia election case has finally flamed out.
The election interference prosecution against President Trump and his allies was quietly sealed shut on Wednesday, not with a dramatic courtroom clash but with the prosecutor admitting the fight was over.
The man now in charge, Peter Skandalakis, stepped forward only after no one else would — and found himself alone at the helm of a sinking ship.
He called the case “on life support,” and in a 23-page motion asked the court to dismiss every charge against President Trump and 14 co-defendants.
Skandalakis concluded the matter belonged at the federal level and pointed to former special counsel Jack Smith, who had already walked that road. Smith reviewed the evidence, studied the Supreme Court’s Trump v. United States ruling, and weighed the years of legal warfare that would follow. He chose not to pursue it after Trump’s 2024 election victory.
Skandalakis followed that logic. If the federal government — with all its authority and resources — decided it was futile, why should Georgia fight the same battle? He wrote that despite the evidence, pressing ahead “on essentially federal grounds” would be “equally unproductive.”
“[I]f Special Counsel Jack Smith, with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal, after reviewing the evidence in this case and considering the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States, along with the years of litigation such a case would inevitably entail, concluded that prosecution would be fruitless,” Skandalakis wrote, “then I too find that, despite the available evidence, pursuing the prosecution of all those involved in State of Georgia v. Donald Trump, et al. on essentially federal grounds would be equally unproductive.”
And so the case ended not with a gavel — but with a shrug.
