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The judge overseeing former President Trump’s Georgia election interference case on Thursday rejected his attempt to toss his charges under the First Amendment. Trump and some of his co-defendants had contended their charges must be tossed because their efforts to contest the 2020 election comprised constitutionally protected “core political speech.”  “Even core political speech addressing…

Former President Trump asked a state appeals court to examine a judge’s decision allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) to stay on Trump’s Georgia 2020 election racketeering case. Judge Scott McAfee previously ruled that Willis’s previous romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created an appearance of a conflict but permitted the district…