By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers made a court filing Monday echoing an argument made by 2020 election lawyer Sidney Powell in a move to dismiss the racketeering count he faces in Georgia. In a court motion, the former president’s lawyer, Steven Sadow, made reference to Mrs. Powell’s arguments (pdf) that her lawyers […]
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Georgia Suspends Gas Tax Amid Emergency Declaration Over Inflation
By Tom Ozimek Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency due to high inflation and negative economic conditions affecting Georgians “as a result of policies coming out of Washington,” with the governor suspending taxes on diesel and gasoline to provide relief. Mr. Kemp signed an executive order on Sept. 12, declaring a legal emergency […]
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Judge Skeptical as Prosecutors Claim Trump Georgia Trial Could Take Four Months
By Jack Phillips A Georgia judge handling the trials of former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants appeared to be skeptical of prosecutors’ proposals to bring all the co-defendants together for a trial starting next month. “It just seems a bit unrealistic to think that we can handle all 19 in forty-something days,” Fulton County […]
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All 19 Defendants Plead Not Guilty, Waive Arraignments in Georgia Election Case
By Samantha Flom All 19 defendants in Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis’s 2020 election probe have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them and waived their formal arraignments. Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was among the final defendants to enter a plea on Sept. 5, alongside former Trump attorney […]
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‘Catastrophic’ Hurricane Idalia Wreaks Havoc on Florida and Georgia
By Jack Phillips Hurricane Idalia made landfall along Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in an update. The storm now moving northward, and its center is located over the southern portion of Georgia. Federal officials said the storm, which intensified into […]
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Legal Scholar Sees Flaws in Georgia Indictment, Efforts to Humiliate Trump
By Ryan Morgan and Steve Lance The criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, comes with the implication that he’ll be booked in like a common criminal, but the arrest and the trial itself might not play out the way Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis planned. After unveiling a sweeping […]
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Former Trump Aide Files to Have Georgia 2020 Election Racketeering Charges Dropped
By Catherine Yang Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to then-President Donald Trump, filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him in Georgia based on the supremacy clause in the Constitution. Mr. Meadows, President Trump, and 17 other co-defendants were charged by a grand jury on Aug. 14 with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt […]
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Judge Sets Trump’s Georgia Bond at $200,000, Restricts Communication
By Janice Hisle A judge has begun setting bonds and release conditions for former President Donald Trump and some of his 18 indicted co-defendants in the Georgia case alleging they unlawfully interfered in the 2020 election. According to newly posted court records (pdf) in Fulton County, Georgia, on Aug. 21, Judge Scott McAfee set bond […]
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Like Meadows, Trump Can Try Nixing Georgia Case Through Federal ‘Removal’: Appellate Lawyer
By Petr Svab Former President Donald Trump may be able to extricate himself from charges in Georgia related to his efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Like his former chief-of-staff Mark Meadows, the 45th president can ask a federal court to “remove” the case from the state court on the grounds that […]
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Former AG Barr Says Trump’s Georgia Indictment ‘Too Broad,’ Likely Not Triable Before 2024 Election
By Katabella Roberts Former Attorney General William Barr believes the Georgia election indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants is “too broad” and helps “feed the narrative” that he is being “victimized.” Mr. Barr made the comments in an interview with Fox News on Aug. 17. President Trump was charged with 13 counts […]
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Georgia Senator Demands Special Session to Investigate, Possibly Impeach Fani Willis
By Tom Ozimek Georgia Republican state Sen. Colton Moore is demanding a special emergency legislative session to investigate the actions of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis with regard to former President Donald Trump, in a move that Mr. Moore said could lead to Ms. Willis’s impeachment. This week, Ms. Willis charged President Trump and […]
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What We Know About Fani Willis, the Prosecutor Leading the Georgia Election Case Against Donald Trump
By Katabella Roberts Former President Donald Trump was indicted for the fourth time this year on Aug. 14, this time as part of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ probe into claims that he and others attempted to dispute the results of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia. The 98-page indictment lists a […]
