(CNN) –– This Thursday, a judge dismissed three charges in the wide-ranging Georgia election subversion case, including two charges facing former President Donald Trump.
The decision has not yet been formally applied to Trump because his case is on hold pending appeals.
In a separate ruling, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee also upheld the racketeering charge in the case, which Trump also faces.
Trump’s lawyer, Steve Sadow, called the rulings a victory.
“President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have won once again,” Sadow said in a statement. “The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 of the indictment should be quashed/dismissed.”
McAfee dismissed one count of submitting false documents and one count of conspiracy to submit false documents, both stemming from the Trump campaign’s efforts to submit a slate of fake Republican electors in Georgia. Trump was only mentioned in the conspiracy charge.
In the ruling, McAfee also dismissed a separate charge of filing false documents, of which Trump was accused. That charge relates to false statements about alleged election fraud that were included in one of Trump’s lawsuits in December 2020, alleging that he was trying to deny the election results.
These rulings only took effect in the case of former Trump lawyer John Eastman and Georgia state senator Shawn Still, who were involved in the 2020 false electors scheme. Their cases are not currently on pause. Trump was only named in two of the three charges that McAfee dismissed this Thursday.
McAfee’s awkward verdict comes as he only has partial jurisdiction over the 2020 election meddling case. Trump and most of his remaining co-defendants seek to have an appeals court disqualify the Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, to oversee the case. Therefore, their cases are on pause with McAfee, who presides in a lower court. But two defendants, Eastman and Still, chose to move forward with their cases in the lower court rather than join the appeal over whether Willis should be the one to try the case.
Willis, a Democrat, originally secured a 13-count indictment against Trump last summer, related to his multiple attempts to overturn his 2020 loss in the Peach State. McAfee already dismissed three of Trump’s charges in March.
Willis’ office declined to comment. McAfee’s office did not immediately respond to a request for additional information.
