Though he can't currently be prosecuted because of his elected position, President Donald Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants still face an array of dozens of politically motivated election interference and racketeering-related criminal charges in Georgia that stem from the aftermath of the 2020 election.

Three of those charges, two of which were pressed against Trump, were dismissed on Friday by the state judge presiding over the matter, according to the Daily Caller.

The judge, who ruled last year to drop six of the initial charges, three of which applied to Trump, nevertheless declined requests on constitutional grounds to drop all of the remaining criminal charges against Trump and his Georgia associates.

Some charges dropped

CBS News reported that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday that three of the roughly three dozen criminal charges initially brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be dropped from the indictment against President Trump and his 15 co-defendants.

That includes Counts 14, 15, and 27, which deal with alleged conspiracy and criminal attempts to file false documents, and the actual filing of false documents. Of those three counts, 15 and 27 had been applied toward Trump.

Notably, McAfee had previously signaled his belief in September 2024 that those charges should be dismissed because of a lack of state jurisdiction, but he had to wait until after Georgia's higher courts finalized Willis' removal from the case over ethical concerns and formally remanded the matter back to his court.

However, while the judge agreed to drop the three false documents charges, he rejected motions from the defendants to dismiss the remainder of the charges because they violated the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause.

That means Trump and his co-defendants still face the possibility of prosecution on some or all of the 32 criminal counts that remain, including the overarching alleged racketeering conspiracy.

New prosecutor appointed to replace Willis

In other news, the entire Georgia case against President Trump and the others was nearly dismissed altogether on Friday by Judge McAfee, but was saved -- at least for now -- by the last-minute appointment of a new prosecutor to replace the removed DA Willis, according to the Georgia Recorder.

The judge had previously established Friday as the deadline for a replacement prosecutor to be named, or else he would dismiss the case in its entirety.

Peter J. Skandalakis, the head of Georgia's Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council, announced in a Friday court filing that he had appointed himself to take over for Willis -- a responsibility he personally assumed after he was unable to find any other prosecutor in the state who was willing and able to take the case.

"The decision to assume responsibility for this matter was reached only after careful and deliberate consideration," Skandalakis wrote in the filing. "While it would have been simple to allow Judge McAfee’s deadline to lapse or to inform the Court that no conflict prosecutor could be secured -- thereby allowing the case to be dismissed for want of prosecution -- I did not believe that to be the right course of action."

Trump's legal team "confident" the case will ultimately be dismissed

It does not appear that President Trump has publicly commented yet, either good or bad, on the partial dropping of charges or the naming of a new prosecutor in his lingering Georgia criminal case.

CBS News noted that one of Trump's defense attorneys, Steve Sadow, did react optimistically to the changes and told reporters that the president's legal team remains "confident that a fair and impartial review will lead to a dismissal of the case" against him.