Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejects Donald Trump’s bid to block DA from 2020 presidential election probe and stop a grand jury’s report that recommends people be indicted
- Donald Trump’s legal team on Friday asked the Supreme Court of Georgia to step in and block the investigation into 2020 election meddling in the state
- The Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, is investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the vote and Trump’s team asked the Supreme Court to stop it
- On Monday, the nine-member court voted unanimously against interfering in Willis’s work
Georgia‘s Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Donald Trump‘s request to block an investigation into his efforts to overturn the state’s results in the 2020 election.
Trump’s legal team sought on Friday an intervention by the Supreme Court, arguing that the district attorney was using grand juries incorrectly.
They wanted them to block the investigation currently being carried out by the Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis.
She has signaled that indictments are possible in the election-related probe in the next few weeks as a grand jury convenes to consider possible charges.
On Monday, the nine-member court unanimously decided against blocking the investigation.
Donald Trump’s legal team asked the Supreme Court of Georgia to block the investigation into his attempts to overturn the 2020 vote. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the case
Trump’s lawyers have claimed that Willis has violated the state’s rules governing grand juries in various ways, such as using one grand jury to investigate, and then presenting the evidence to another.
The court, in its decision, said they could not criticize Willis’s work and accused Trump of trying to find a way round the existing courts – which have not yet ruled on his attempt to end the inquiry.
‘The Court has made clear that a petitioner cannot invoke this Court’s original jurisdiction as a way to circumvent the ordinary channels for obtaining the relief,’ the justices wrote, in the five-page opinion.
‘Petitioner has not shown that this case presents one of those extremely rare circumstances in which this Court’s original jurisdiction should be invoked, and therefore, the petition is dismissed.’
Eight of the Georgia Supreme Court’s nine justices were appointed by Republican governors. One took office in a nonpartisan election.
Willis has yet to bring charges against Trump, but has suggested a case could be filed in August.
At the heart of the case is Trump’s phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger – which Raffensperger taped.
Joe Biden narrowly won Georgia by a margin of 0.23 percent, and 11,779 votes.
Trump asked Raffensperger to ‘find’ another 11,780 votes, to swing the vote his way.
