Judge clears six charges

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : One count stems from a phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump urged Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes.
39% : Delivery driver robbed in Bloomington, police say 1 arrested after damage reported at Mt. Pisgah, west Bloomington businesses Fatal crash reported on I-74 near Carlock 5 killed in western Illinois school bus crash Catholic Diocese of Peoria revises restructuring plan, may spare Bloomington's Holy Trinity Matthew "Matt" L. Keim Homewood-Flossmoor topples Normal Community in 4A state title game Man charged with delivering cocaine in McLean County Funerals pending for March 13 Latest marriage licenses for Bloomington-Normal area 25 years ago: Bloomington girl goes on the 'Tonight Show' Country Financial lists GE Road office complex for sale Funerals today for March 11 ISU to appoint interim president Tarhule as next official president Normal Community bests Palatine boys basketball in IHSA Class 4A semifinalsThe sprawling indictment charges Trump and more than a dozen other defendants with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO.
33% : Defense attorneys applauded the ruling, which came after challenges to the indictment from Trump, former New York mayor and current Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys John Eastman, Ray Smith and Robert Cheeley.
32% : But the judge left in place other counts -- including 10 facing Trump -- and said prosecutors could seek a new indictment to reinstate the ones he dismissed.
22% : Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee quashed six counts in the indictment, including three against Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
20% : "Another of the dismissed counts accuses Trump of soliciting then-Georgia House Speaker David Ralston to violate his oath of office by calling a special session of the legislature to unlawfully appoint presidential electors.McAfee's order leaves Meadows facing only a RICO charge.

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