一名法官周四驳回了前特朗普竞选律师西德尼·鲍威尔的请求格鲁吉亚选举干预案反对她因控方渎职而被驳回。

这项裁决是在富尔顿县的听证会后做出的，就在鲍威尔辞职前几周计划进行审判与肯尼斯·切塞布罗一起，在两人都要求迅速审理此案后。

“纯粹从程序上来说，我不相信这项因行为不当而驳回的动议...法官斯科特·麦卡菲说:“他已经清除了程序上的障碍，因为这是在法院的权力之下。”。

鲍威尔、切塞布罗和包括前总统唐纳德·特朗普在内的其他17人在8月份对所有指控不认罪全面的敲诈勒索起诉涉嫌试图推翻佐治亚州2020年总统选举的结果。被告斯科特·霍尔随后接受了认罪协议他承认篡改投票机设备。

2020年11月19日，唐纳德·特朗普总统的律师西德尼·鲍威尔在共和党全国委员会就2020年总统选举结果的诉讼举行新闻发布会。

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鲍威尔的律师激烈地争辩说，鲍威尔并没有像指控中所说的那样参与咖啡郡投票机的破坏。

迈克菲说:“我认为可以肯定地说，双方都非常相信自己的论据。”。“当双方都相信...这就是为什么我们有陪审团审判制度。”

审判定于10月23日开始。

Judge denies Sidney Powell's request to dismiss her Georgia election interference case

A judge on Thursday denied a request from former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell to have theGeorgia election interference caseagainst her dismissed over allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

The ruling, following a hearing in Fulton County, comes just weeks before Powell isscheduled to go to trialalongside Kenneth Chesebro, after the pair both requested speedy trials in the case.

"Purely on procedural grounds, I don't believe that this motion to dismiss for misconduct ... has cleared the procedural bar as being under the court's authority," Judge Scott McAfee said.

Powell, Chesebro and 17 others, including former President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty in August to all charges in asweeping racketeering indictmentfor alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. Defendant Scott Hall subsequentlytook a plea dealin which he pleaded guilty to tampering with voting machine equipment.

Powell's attorney fiercely contends that Powell was not involved in the voting machine breach in Coffee County as alleged in the charges against her.

"I think it's safe to say that both sides vigorously believe in the strength of their case," McAfee said. "When two sides believe that ... that's why we have our jury trial system."

The trial is set to begin Oct. 23.