A judge in the US state of Georgia on Thursday dismissed two charges against Donald Trump and another charge against allies of the Republican presidential candidate in the 2020 US election interference case.

Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled that prosecutors did not have the authority to bring these charges in federal court in connection with the alleged filing of false documents.

McAfee allowed the rest of the case to proceed, including eight charges against Trump. Trump and 14 co-defendants have pleaded not guilty to criminal conspiracy and other charges related to what prosecutors say was a plot to overturn Trump’s narrow loss in Georgia in the 2020 election.

The case focuses on the way Trump and his allies tried to get officials in Georgia to break their oath of office as part of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, prosecutors said in their August indictment.

These efforts ranged from pressuring lawmakers in the US state of Georgia to appoint false electors to Trump’s infamous phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to find enough votes to overturn the election.

The trial in Georgia was just one of numerous trials against Trump in the wake of his turbulent time as president and the insurrection at the Capitol in Washington DC on January 6, 2021, which attempted to prevent Joe Biden’s election victory.

But Trump and his team have fought the charges with a largely successful delaying strategy, including in the Georgia case, and an actual trial date there is still considered a long way off and will certainly not take place before the presidential election in November.

Reuters contributed reporting