Trump and his attorneys sought to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case, essentially crippling her investigation by disallowing evidence she collected through a special grand jury.

Attorneys for Trump, who is facing multiple criminal cases in Florida, New York and Washington, D.C., argued that the investigation and possible indictments coming from an investigation led by Willis conflicted with Trump’s lack of standing.

“(W)hile being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said in his ruling.

Willis has said the decision on whether to indict Trump in his efforts to overturn the results of Georgia’s presidential election 2020 will not come until early September.

Georgia’s Supreme Court already had denied the same motion by Trump’s legal team, stating that they incorrectly bypassed the lower courts to receive a ruling before coming to them.

The court action in Atlanta is just the latest in Trump’s legal woes, despite still leading the Republican presidential primary field by a wide margin.

On Tuesday, a federal grand jury returned an indictment in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s activities to overturn the 2020 election, leading to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The indictment was immediately sealed, with no information given about other defendants, though six unindicted co-conspirators were cited.