Edition · March 13, 2024

Trump’s Georgia case got a partial trim — and a bigger reminder that it’s still alive

A Fulton County judge knocked out six counts in the election-interference indictment, but the racketeering case against Trump and his allies remains very much on the board. That is not a win so much as a narrower road to the same courthouse.

March 13, 2024 delivered another day of Trump-world legal damage, with a Georgia judge dismissing six counts from the Fulton County election-interference indictment while leaving the core racketeering case intact. The ruling was not the exoneration Trump allies wanted to brag about, and it landed amid a campaign narrative already soaked in criminal exposure, delay tactics, and courtroom survival mode.

Closing take

The day’s message for Trump was simple: the calendar keeps moving, the cases keep surviving, and the legal weeds are still thick enough to trip a campaign that wants to act as if all this is just background noise.

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