A Nevada judge on Friday threw out the state’s case against the six Republicans who claimed to be presidential electors and tried to declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election. The judge, Mary Kay Holthus, said state prosecutors had chosen the wrong venue to file the case.

John Sadler, a spokesperson for Attorney General Aaron Ford, said, “We disagree with the judge’s decision and will be appealing immediately.” He declined to comment further.

The defendants in the case included top leaders of the state’s Republican Party, and they were charged with forging and submitting fraudulent documents in a fake elector scheme to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. Among those charged was the chair of the state party, Michael McDonald.

The ruling marked another legal setback for the criminal cases against Trump, his associates and state-level allies over the 2020 election. A similar case in Georgia has been indefinitely delayed amid an investigation into a relationship between the Fulton County district attorney and a prosecutor she hired to handle the case.

Holthus had previously expressed concern about the venue. This year, in her Las Vegas courtroom, she asked prosecutors to submit a brief explaining the illegal acts that they claim took place in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.

Filings from the defendants argue that the Trump electors met in Carson City, the state capital, which is in a different county, and they contend that the state should have filed its case there.