Associated Press
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking Georgia’s highest court to prevent the district attorney who has been investigating his actions in the wake of the 2020 election from prosecuting him and to throw out a special grand jury report that is part of the inquiry.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating since early 2021 whether Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his narrow election loss in Georgia to Democrat Joe Biden. She has suggested that she is likely to seek charges in the case from a grand jury next month.
Trump’s Georgia legal team on Friday filed similar petitions in the Georgia Supreme Court and Fulton County Superior Court naming Willis and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who oversaw the special grand jury, as respondents. A spokesperson for Willis declined to comment. McBurney did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Trump’s legal team acknowledged that the filings are unusual but necessary given the tight time frame. Willis has indicated she will use the special grand jury report to seek an indictment “within weeks, if not days.” Two new regular grand juries were seated this week, and one is likely to hear the case.
The petitions seek to bar Willis and her office from continuing to prosecute the case. It also asks that the report produced by the special grand jury that had ben seated in the case be tossed out and that prosecutors be prevented from presenting any evidence from the panel’s investigation to a regular grand jury.
The filings ask that the courts stop “all proceedings related to and flowing from the special purpose grand jury’s investigation until this matter can be resolved.”
8 comments
PeterH
July 15, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Any day now Trump! Your attempted coup is soon to be see justice!
Bwj
July 15, 2023 at 2:35 pm
There are indeed two justice systems in this country. One for the rich, and one for the poor. Hopefully the courts let the grand jury decide whether to prosecute or not.
Earl Pitts "Mayor of Realville" American
July 15, 2023 at 7:13 pm
Good evening America,
I, Earl Pitts American, already told “The Donald” to just let it go. And just chill enjoying his golden years of retirement.
I, Earl Pitts American, and Ron Desantis have already agreed to appoint “The Donald” as Border Wall Czar if he gets tired of retirement. Furthermore I, Earl Pitts American, already guranteed “The Donald” that I, Earl Pitts American, personally, gurantee “The Donald” that Ron Desantis will pardon any charges those Fulton County Dook 4 Brains Leftists bring against “The Donald”.
Thank you America,
Earl Pitts “The Big Voice On The Right” American
Dont Say FLA
July 15, 2023 at 9:17 pm
LOL @ Stupid Trump, for once (as of late). He has no faith in the jurors, regular US citizens, that comprise the grand jury and will say yay or nay to him being prosecuted? Shocking! LOL again @ Stupid Trump. He must have been hanging around with Rhonda and caught a more serious case of stupid.
Lala
July 16, 2023 at 1:04 am
The USA has become the laughing stock of the world. From Hunter Biden caught weighing crack cocaine and falsifying info for buying a gun while addicted, while other are serving years in prison for same crimes, the US justice system is a complete joke. Not to forget we have people in congress visiting Ukraine while they’ve never visited homeless US vets or American citizens who lost everything during the Covid shutdown, despite all this concern about Covid being ignored when we see our US President nibbling on a young child, as if Covid disappeared , despite hospitals still asking people if they’ve been exposed to Covid. What a shite show indeed. Not to forget we have people on Cops still arrested for low level stuff while Hunter gets away with claiming tax exempt expentidures like sex clubs while the rest of US citizens targeted for much less. This is a complete joke. And let’s not forget BLM riots that destroyed black communities and busineses while Patrice took the money intended for bs and bought herself some million dollar homes. And don’t forget Jussie who lied about MAGA people and all the all the main stream media and Spies that lied involved in the cover up of Hunter’s laptop. And what the F with Epstein killing himself with video surveillance of his death somehow miraculously not working along with Secret Service not being able to identify who brought coke into white house. THe whoel thing stinks and Americans see it. Time to clean house. As in the White House. It’s a cancer and enemy of the people. TRUTH.
ddsasdfafasdfasdf
July 16, 2023 at 1:15 am
It doesn’t matter what people believe since our system is so compromised and callous some can’t handle the Truth. The truth is Biden is not the duly elected President and no matter how many anti-Trump haters say he did win it’s a lie. A big lie that many can’t take the time to investigate not that it matters anymore since so many people involved in discerning this stolen election are for the puppets who fakely won elections. Yes, these people don’t care if video evidence showed election workers scanning the same ballots for Biden over and over to the tune of an extra 5000 votes, they don’t care. To them, it never happened. And those involved in this mess keep claiming “this is bigger than us.” Weak. Pathetic scumbags who care nothing about democracy while screaming TRump is a threat against democracy. Please. Sit down already you mental case compromised POS. The US OWES TRUMP the next election because deep down inside you all KNOW that this past election was rigged and it’s time you pay up. Do what is right for this country, if you don’t you are curing this country. And yourselves for being so blinded and willfully ignorant.
dipshierus
July 16, 2023 at 1:48 am
Just stop with the idiocy, okay? The US owes TRUMP. You stole the election through mail in votes that didn’t add up but were covered under COVID. You had many people in the elections scanning ballots for Biden over and over again. You may think you got away with this insanity buried in chaos and confusion and compromised justice officials but the reality of this evil fraud will not last. Truth will demand justice and eventually all the lies and subterfuge involved with demand real justice. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. WEIGH JUSTICE America. DO what is right. Stop the false balances. The Hunter Biden cover ups, the big lies about Jan 6th, the false balances against conservatives the unequal weights. It’s time to do what is right and just and bring this country back to the greatness it is intended to be without prejudice and so man compromised and callous to the weight of justice. BIDEN and his family compromised this country and if you’re involved in this and took payment for this you need to REPENT and get right. Don’t sell your souls or throw your pearls to swine. GET away from these pigs now and do what is RIGHT. You know that is right but you are afraid to do it. MAN UP. WOMAN UP. DO what is right and be clean.
PeterH
July 16, 2023 at 7:48 am
Qanon has fried your brain. Seek professional help!
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