Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee denied a request made by Harrison Floyd to loosen his bond conditions, a ruling that prevents the co-defendant in Georgia's 2020 election interference case from working on Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Floyd, the former leader of Black Voices for Trump, had asked McAfee last month for permission to communicate with the GOP nominee and also use social media to resume a role as a paid 2024 presidential campaign operative, Newsweek reported.
The prohibitions on Floyd remain; he is not to speak publicly or on social media about the case or any of the remaining 13 co-defendants or witnesses.
Floyd was indicted on three felony counts of violating Georgia's anti-racketeering law in trying to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. He also faces charges of influencing a witness and conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements. The charges are rooted in alleged harassment of Ruby Freeman, a Fulton County election worker who had been accused of election fraud by Trump.
Floyd was the only one of 19 defendants jailed in the case. He turned himself in last August without a lawyer or bond agreement and spent six days behind bars until a $100,000 bond was negotiated with the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Four of the original co-defendants have since reached plea deals with prosecutors.
"The district attorney's office never reached out to me like they did everyone else," Floyd told Newsmax on Aug. 31, the day after he bonded out. "If they had, I could have connected them with my lawyer here in D.C., and we could have worked out a bond agreement, just like everybody else. They spoke to everyone around the sun trying to pressure [them] except for me."
Floyd was also arrested last May in Maryland on a federal warrant that accuses him of aggressively confronting two FBI agents sent to serve him with a grand jury subpoena.
McAfee has yet to rule on the motion to disqualify Willis from prosecuting the case.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.