This week’s stunning turn in Atlanta is a victory for the rule of law and for every American who watched politically motivated prosecutions tear at the fabric of our justice system. On November 26, 2025, Pete Skandalakis, the state prosecutor who assumed control of the Fulton County matter, moved to drop the sprawling racketeering indictment against President Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants, a decision that a judge approved and which brings this long-running legal circus to an end.
The indictment at the center of the storm was announced by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in 2023 and sought to use Georgia’s anti-racketeering statute against the former president and 18 others in connection with the 2020 election. Prosecutors tried to turn political disagreement and investigative assertions into criminal conduct, but the grand spectacle always looked more like politics than prosecutorial prudence.
That spectacle unraveled when Willis herself was removed from the case after appeals judges found the appearance of impropriety surrounding her relationship with the special prosecutor she hired. The removal and subsequent legal fights exposed how easily partisan ambition and sloppy ethics can contaminate a prosecution, and they left the case on shaky institutional footing long before today’s dismissal.
Skandalakis made the pragmatic legal point few wanted to admit: there is no realistic way to compel a sitting president to appear in a distant state court, and pursuing the case further would have been futile, costly, and likely drawn on for years. That frank assessment by a nonpartisan state official confirms what Trump’s defenders argued all along — this was never a straightforward criminal matter but a political weapon that ran out of oxygen.
Conservatives have for years warned about the weaponization of the justice system, and today’s outcome is proof that when politics replaces evidence and due process, the system loses its legitimacy. This is not a moment for gloating alone; it is a moment to demand accountability for the officials who pursued this prosecution with partisan zeal and who let personal lapses of judgment into the courtroom.
The practical fallout is clear: a major branch of the legal assault on a leading Republican figure has been shut down, freeing citizens from yet another distraction and allowing the country to refocus on real issues like the economy, borders, and national security. Hardworking Americans deserve prosecutors who chase crimes, not political headlines, and today’s decision should be a wake-up call to restore restraint and integrity to our justice system.
Patriots should take pride in a system that — while imperfect — ultimately checked an overreach that threatened basic fairness, and they should keep pressing for reforms that prevent future abuse. If public servants are going to wield the awesome power of criminal law, that power must be exercised with impartiality, restraint, and respect for the Constitution that binds us all.
