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Donald Trump filed a demand for Judge Scott McAfee to dismiss two charges against him in the Fulton County election interference case, claiming the state lacks the ability to accuse him. In the Wednesday filing, Trump’s lawyers claim that as a state, Georgia doesn’t have the authority to charge Trump for filing false documents in federal court. The only entity that can do so, they claim, is the Justice Department or federal courts. To justify the claim, the lawyers cite an 1890 case which decided, “The courts of a state have no jurisdiction of a complaint for perjury in testifying before a not…

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