The second attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend came just after the dismissal by a Georgia judge of more lawfare charges against the former president and other defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ partisan prosecution.

But on Friday, two days before Sunday’s second shocking attempt to kill Trump, another dismissal occurred. This time, the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia threw out charges Willis wanted to file against the state’s lieutenant governor over the same actions that formed the basis of her prosecution of other so-called fake electors favoring Trump.

This second dismissal, by a separate, independent prosecutor, demonstrates why Willis’ remaining charges against the other alternate, contingent electors and their lawyers should be thrown out of court.

The issue of whether Willis may continue her prosecution of any of the defendants is currently before the Georgia Court of Appeals, which set oral arguments for Dec. 3, a month after the presidential election.

The defendants appealed the decision of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee regarding their misconduct claim against Willis and her lover, Nathan Wade, whom she hired as special prosecutor against Trump.

McAfee ruled that the prosecution could continue as long as either Willis or Wade removed themselves from the case. Wade then bowed out, but the defendants are arguing that both of them should have been thrown off the case.

On Sept. 12, McAfee issued an order granting a motion to dismiss three of the remaining charges against Trump and other defendants in the Georgia case. The judge’s dismissal of two charges against Trump and one against other defendants comes on top of his ruling in March dismissing six other counts, including three against Trump. This leaves eight of the original 13 charges against Trump.

Notice a pattern here? Drip, drip, drip—drop, drop, drop.

The basis of McAfee’s latest order is the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Article VI, Clause 2 provides that the........

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