Judge Scott McAffee, in charge of the case opened in Georgia against former President of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) for electoral interference, rejected his request to dismiss it this Thursday.
The judge alleged that the defense has not been able to demonstrate that his statements and alleged conduct are protected by freedom of expression and stressed that the Court has not found evidence to defend that thesis either.
The Republican's team had relied on the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which protects the right to freedom of expression.
Trump and 18 other accomplices are accused in Georgia of forming a criminal association with the aim of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state, which Democrat Joe Biden won.
The charge of criminal association brought forward by District Attorney Fani Willis is the same one that has been used by other prosecutors in the past to break up mafia organizations.
McAffee had already rejected similar requests that other defendants had made in this case trying to rely on the First Amendment.
The trial in Georgia does not yet have a date. The prosecutor has pointed out that she would be ready for August, but the magistrate has not commented.
Of the four criminal cases against him, the first to begin, on April 15, is the one in New York for the payment of bribes to porn actress Stormy Daniels to buy her silence during the 2016 campaign.
In Washington he also has another open for electoral interference, while in Florida he is accused of taking classified documents from the White House, which he kept in his Mar-a-Lago mansion, when he left office.