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Marshall Cohen
Mon, July 17, 2023 at 3:41 PM PDT
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a long shot legal bid from former President Donald Trump to essentially shut down the Fulton County criminal probe into his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia.
The court said in a five-page opinion that Trump hadn’t demonstrated the “extraordinary circumstances” that would require their intervention at this time. Trump had asked the Georgia justices to throw out the wide array of evidence collected so far in the Fulton County investigation and to block state prosecutors from ever using that material in any future criminal or civil proceedings.
“(Trump) 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,” the ruling said.
The decision was unanimous. Eight of the nine members of the Georgia Supreme Court were appointed by Republican governors.
Trump has other legal challenges related to the Fulton County criminal investigation that are still pending. He has denied wrongdoing and claims that the prosecutors are only investigating him because they want to undermine his 2024 presidential campaign.
Charging decisions are expected soon in the investigation, which is led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The probe has zeroed in on the attempts by Trump and his allies to pressure Georgia election officials, state lawmakers, the governor and related federal prosecutors into helping him overturn the results in Georgia, which he lost by less than 12,000 votes out of 5 million ballots cast.
Trump’s legal challenges also sought a court order blocking Willis, an elected Democrat, from participating in any further proceedings related to the criminal investigation. The Georgia Supreme Court said Monday that Trump’s petition to the high court “has not presented … either the facts or the law necessary to mandate Willis’s disqualification by this Court at this time on this record.”
Willis’ office declined to comment on the ruling. CNN has reached out to Trump’s lawyers for comment.
The investigation crossed a major milestone last week, with the swearing-in of a new grand jury that has the power to approve potential indictments. Willis has indicated that this could happen as soon as soon as next month. A special purpose grand jury in Fulton County previously heard evidence from 75 witnesses, including Trump White House officials, former Trump lawyers and advisers, Georgia officials and election experts.
State prosecutors are also scrutinizing Trump’s attempts to subvert the Electoral College with a slate of “fake electors” in Georgia, as well as efforts by some Trump allies to breach voting systems in the state while they fruitlessly tried to prove there was massive fraud.
CNN’s Jason Morris contributed to this report.
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as she lovingly suckles your frustrations away. Meanwhile:“Embarrassing”: “Very Republican” Georgia Supreme Court just swatted down Trump’s legal Hail Mary 
513Igor Derysh
Tue, July 18, 2023 at 6:05 AM PDT
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The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump's long-shot bid to throw out a special grand jury's investigative findings and disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the proceedings.
The court, whose nine justices were mostly appointed by Republican governors, unanimously rejected Trump's motion just three days after he filed it. Trump sought the court order ahead of a widely expected indictment in Willis' probe into his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
Trump's legal team conceded in its filing that they could find "no case in 40 years" where the court had intervened this way. The court said in its ruling that Trump had "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."
The ruling added that Trump's lawyers had not shown "either the facts or the law necessary to mandate Willis's disqualification."
Trump's lawyers previously filed a motion to Judge Robert McBurney in the Atlanta Superior Court to quash much of the evidence collected by Willis and boot her off the case but the judge has yet to rule.
"Stranded between the supervising judge's protected passivity and the district attorney's looming indictment, petitioner has no meaningful option other than to seek this court's intervention," Trump's lawyers argued in their filing on Friday.
"Trump's motion to quash the Georgia grand jury investigation and remove prosecutor Fani Willis from the case was the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary. The Georgia Supreme Court swatted it away," former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade wrote on Twitter.
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out that Trump "got crushed today by the very Republican Supreme Court of Georgia."
But Georgia State University Law Prof. Anthony Michael Kreis wrote that while Georgia's Supreme Court is "right-of-center," the "justices are very serious jurists who aren't going to run political interference for Trump."
"The Georgia Supreme Court's order dismissing Trump's petition for extraordinary relief is embarrassing and pointed but it is an honest reflection of Trump's current legal strategy in Georgia, which is best described as zealously throwing spaghetti against the wall," he wrote.
The law professor explained that there were multiple reasons that the petition was rejected, not least of which was that "the brief was a mess" and "wasn't clear what relief was being asked for and why."
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"Much of the brief was based on conjecture and claims that were not about defending Trump's rights but asserting third parties' rights," he explained. And "when we say Trump was asking for *extraordinary* relief the name really fits. Asking the Georgia Supreme Court to exercise original jurisdiction in this way for the first time in 40 years (as admitted by counsel) is out-of-step with this court's practice."
A special grand jury earlier this year issued a final report that remains largely sealed but is reported to have recommended multiple indictments. But the special grand jury does not have indictment power and the evidence is now being heard by a regular grand jury in Fulton County.
Willis wrote a letter to law enforcement in April warning them to ramp up security ahead of planned charging decisions this summer and in another letter narrowed down the possible dates to between July 31 and Aug. 18, asking that no in-person activity proceedings be scheduled at the county courthouse during that time.
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Special counsel informs Trump he is target in probe of efforts to overturn 2020 election
KATHERINE FAULDERS, JOHN SANTUCCI, ALEXANDER MALLIN and LUKE BARR
Tue, July 18, 2023 at 6:27 AM PDT·2 min read
Special counsel Jack Smith has informed former President Donald Trump by letter that he is a target in his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Trump also confirmed the development in a post on his Truth Social platform.
The letter, which sources said was transmitted to Trump's attorneys in recent days, indicates that yet another indictment of the former president could be imminent -- though it is not immediately clear what kind of charges he could ultimately face.
MORE: As Trump faces charges in docs case, special counsel is quietly continuing Jan. 6 probe
Target letters are typically given to subjects in a criminal investigation to put them on notice that they are facing the prospect of indictment.
Trump similarly received a target letter from Smith before he was indicted by a grand jury in Florida for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House and his alleged efforts to obstruct the government's investigation.
Smith took control of the sprawling Justice Department investigation into the failed efforts by Trump and his allies to thwart his election loss upon his appointment as special counsel in November of last year, and in recent months dozens of witnesses have appeared to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C.
According to sources, prosecutors have questioned witnesses specifically about the efforts to put forward false slates of so-called false electors that were to have cast electoral college votes during the certification for Trump in key swing states that he lost to President Joe Biden.
PHOTO: Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage during the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 15, 2023. (Marco Bello/Reuters)
Investigators have also sought information on Trump's actions and his state of mind in the days leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, temporarily disrupting the certification and causing lawmakers and former Vice President Pence to flee the building.
Trump was indicted last month on 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after Smith's prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The former president has also pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment from the Manhattan district attorney charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election.
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No others in 2020 election probe have received a target letter but Trump
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NBC News’ Garrett Haake reports that others who have been investigated in the special counsel’s 2020 election investigation, including Rudy Giuliani, have not received a target letter as former President Donald Trump did.
