The new attorney general will not file charges against Trump, Giuliani and others in the Georgia election interference case

ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor who recently took up the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others said in a lawsuit Wednesday that he has decided not to pursue the case further.

Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Georgia Council of Prosecutors, took over the case last month from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was fired for an “appearance of impropriety” stemming from a romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she chose to lead the case.

After Skandalakis’ filing, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued a one-paragraph order dismissing the entire case.

Legal proceedings against Trump were unlikely to move forward while he was president. But 14 other defendants still face charges, including former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

After the Georgia Supreme Court declined in September to hear Willis’s appeal of her disqualification, it became the responsibility of the District Attorney’s Council to find a new prosecutor. Skandalakis said last month that he had reached out to several prosecutors, but they all declined to take the case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set a Nov. 14 deadline to appoint a new prosecutor, so Skandalakis chose to appoint himself rather than allow the case to be dismissed.