Georgia's top court spurns Trump bid to block election probe

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Georgia's highest court has rejected a request by former President Donald Trump to block a district attorney from prosecuting him for his actions in the wake of the 2020 election.

The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously shot down a petition that Trump's attorneys filed last week asking the court to intervene. Trump's legal team argued that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office should be barred from seeking charges and that a special grand jury report that is part of the inquiry should be thrown out.

Regarding Trump's attempt to block the prosecutors, the justices said his legal filing lacked"the facts or the law necessary to mandate Willis's disqualification by this Court at this time on this record." Trump's legal team previously acknowledged that the dual filings were unusual but said they were necessary given the tight time frame. Two new regular grand juries were seated last week and one is likely to hear the case.

In their legal petition to the state Supreme Court, Trump's lawyers argued they were"stranded between the Supervising Judge's protracted passivity and the District Attorney's looming indictment" with no choice other than to ask the high court to intervene.Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger

 

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