A legal expert slammed prosecutors in Georgia on Wednesday after they moved to dismiss a long-standing case against President Donald Trump because it would take too long to prosecute.
Prosecutors in Georgia charged Trump with crimes under the state's RICO statutes for his attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. The trial dragged out as Trump's lawyers argued that the former prosecutor, Fani Willis, was providing improper benefits to another prosecutor, Nathan Wade. A judge ultimately ruled that Willis needed to be replaced on the case.
The new prosecutor, Pete Skandalakis, the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, moved to dismiss the case against Trump on Wednesday, arguing that it would take too long to prosecute.
Legal expert Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, discussed Skandalakis' motion to dismiss the case on his podcast, "Justice Matters."
"The veteran prosecutor, Skandalakis, said it would be illogical, unduly burdensome, and costly to try the remaining 14 defendants in the case without Trump," Kirschner said. "Given that he's the central figure named in the indictment, it would be unduly burdensome and costly to try to hold the other indicted co-conspirators accountable for their crimes."
"[At] what price? Democracy?" Kirschner added. "What's the value on America's free and fair elections?"
Trump and 18 others were charged with harassing Georgia state officials like Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and state election workers to overturn the result of Georgia's 2020 election. In a now-infamous call, Trump demanded that Raffensberger "find" more than 11,000 votes to swing the outcome of the election in his favor.
"Nobody said prosecuting was easy or fun or inexpensive," he continued. "But to say a case like this, where Donald Trump is on an audio recording saying just find me 11,780 votes, is too costly, too burdensome, or would take too long, is a perversion of justice."