Federal judge denies Trump bid to throw out documents prosecution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Lawyers for Trump had cited a 1978 statute known as the Presidential Records Act in arguing that he was permitted to designate records from his time in office as personal and take them with him when he left the White House.
40% : McAfee's ruling is a signal he will continue moving the case toward trial even as Trump and eight co-defendants continue their efforts to disqualify district attorney Fani Willis, the prosecutor overseeing the case.
36% : Trump has other pending challenges to the case, including a claim that he is immune from charges tied to official actions he took as president.
30% : The Georgia charges focus on attempts to assemble an alternate slate of presidential electors pledged to vote for Trump - despite Biden's historic win in the state - and Trump's January 2021 phone call urging the state's top election official to "find" enough votes to overturn his narrow defeat.
29% : Biden is now running for re-election, as the presumptive Democratic party nominee, while Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee following a primary season where he saw off multiple challengers despite being a defendant in several criminal and civil court cases.
28% : "Trump faces 40 charges arising from his retention of classified information after leaving the White House and alleged obstruction of attempts to recover such records.
28% : Fulton county superior court judge Scott McAfee found that the indictment alleges statements by Trump and others charged in the case were made "in furtherance of criminal activity" and are not protected by the first amendment to the US Constitution, that protects free speech.
25% : McAfee said it will be up to a jury to determine if Trump and other defendants, which include his former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, acted with criminal intent.
22% : Separately, earlier it emerged Trump is scheduled to be deposed in a civil case in New York, by lawyers for co-founders of his social media company as part of a dispute over ownership in Trump Media & Technology Group.
21% : Trump denies the charges.
20% : Trump then also sued Litinsky and Moss, in Florida on March 24, and is seeking to strip them of their stock, saying they failed to earn it, because of mismanagement.
8% : Judge rejects defense's argument based on Presidential Records Act claiming Trump could take documents when he left officeA federal judge refused Thursday to throw out the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump, rejecting a defense argument that the case should be tossed because he was entitled as a former president to retain the records after he left office.
2% : Trump and the other defendants have been charged with racketeering and other offenses over their effort to overturn Trump's defeat in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, who was inaugurated in 2021 despite a long campaign by Trump in multiple fora to reverse the result.

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