Judge keeps RICO case in place as he tosses 2 Trump charges, but a footnote is revealing

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30% : The Georgia judge presiding over the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his allies dismissed two charges against the former president on Thursday while leaving the top RICO count untouched, but a footnote emphasizing the issues that decision "does not reach" shows a much larger fight looms large.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who previously tossed out other charges, made his latest ruling on the motions of co-defendants John Eastman and Shawn Still, decided that three counts (14, 15, and 27), two of which Trump faced, had to be "quashed" because the "United States Supreme Court's decision of In re Loney, 134 U.S. 372 (1890) preempts the State's ability to prosecute perjury and false filings in a federal district court[.]"At the same time, the judge wrote that the "indictment is not barred entirely" by the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, since the "subject" of the charges is not "so inseparably connected to the functioning of the national government[.]"Some legal commentators reacted to the ruling by either opining that McAfee was either "probably right" or may not have been but ruled on an issue where legal experts can reasonably disagree, but they emphasized the RICO case as a whole has thus far been upheld.
19% : "A footnote from the judge pointed out, however, that there is still a fight lingering in the background, an issue that McAfee has not yet ruled on in light of Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court immunity case that has complicated each of Trump's three other criminal cases.

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