Staff Reports
On November 26, 2025, Georgia’s long-running election case against Donald Trump was effectively ended when the state prosecutor who took over the matter declined to pursue the charges, bringing an overdue close to a politically charged saga that should never have been weaponized in the first place. Pete Skandalakis, the official who assumed responsibility after Fulton County’s embattled DA was removed, determined that further prosecution was futile and impractical, a decision that restored a measure of sanity to a legal process warped by politics.
This whole affair began in 2023 as an ambitious racketeering indictment brought by Fani Willis, an initiative that critics warned from the start looked more like political theater than sober justice. The case became mired in scandal when Willis’s romantic relationship with the private prosecutor she hired created an appearance of impropriety, a conflict so glaring that an appellate court ultimately disqualified her and her office — a rare but necessary step to protect the integrity of the system.
Conservatives should be clear-eyed about what this outcome represents: a vindication of due process over prosecutorial overreach and a rebuke to those in the political class who saw the justice system as a cudgel against their opponents. For years rank-and-file Americans watched elites weaponize investigations to try to change political outcomes, and today’s dismissal sends a message that such abuses won’t stand unchallenged.
Legal decisions along the way had already undermined parts of Willis’s indictment, with judges tossing counts that fell under federal jurisdiction and repeatedly scrutinizing the office’s conduct. Those rulings were more than legal technicalities — they exposed how convenient theories of prosecution were stretched to fit an agenda rather than the rule of law.
Now that the last major state-level criminal threat has been removed, there must be accountability for the officials who abused their power and for the political operatives who cheered them on. Americans deserve impartial justice, not show trials; public officials who used their offices to pursue political vendettas should be investigated and, where appropriate, held responsible so future generations aren’t terrorized by the same tactics.
Hardworking patriots across this country can take pride that the system, strained though it was, ultimately snapped back toward fairness. This isn’t a partisan celebration so much as a defense of American principles: equality under the law, restraint in prosecutorial power, and the right of citizens to engage in politics without fear of being targeted for winning an election. The American experiment depends on these truths, and we must never stop defending them.
