Trump Secures a Rare Victory in Georgia Election Case

Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell will have a trial on Oct. 23, but President Trump and 16 others will be tried later.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at the Monument Leaders Rally hosted by the South Dakota Republican Party in Rapid City, S.D., on Sept. 8, 2023. Scott Olson/Getty Images

A judge ruled Thursday that former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election case won’t start in October.

The ruling (pdf) from Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County Superior Court stated that the former president will be tried separately from and after the trials of two of his former attorneys, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, in the case.