Washington — The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be removed from the 2020 election case against President-elect Donald Trump, reversing a trial judge's decision that allowed her to remain on the case. Trump and more than a dozen...
Proceedings in the other federal case brought by Smith's office, revolving around Trump's alleged efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results, were delayed for months as the Supreme Court considered issues related to presidential immunity. In May, Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of fal...
Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows’s push to move Georgia election case to federal court The Supreme Courtrefused Tuesday tohear former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s appeal seeking to move to federal court his Georgia criminal charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 e...
Judge Scott McAfee presided over the hearing Thursday morning in the first court appearance in the Trump case since ordering District Attorney Fani Willis to remove special counsel Nathan Wade from the case over their romantic affair. McAfee heard arguments related to motions from Trump and...
McAfee in his decision found that an 1890 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case known asIn re Loney, preempted a “State’s ability to prosecute perjury and false filings in a federal district court,” and as a result the three counts related to alleged false filings...
That intermediate appeals courtagreed on Wednesdayto take up the case. Once it rules, the losing side could ask the Georgia Supreme Court to consider an appeal. Advertisement Trump’s lead attorney in Georgia, Steve Sadow, said in an email that the former...
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Kemp has said he prefers that the prosecutor oversight panel and not the Senate committee investigate any accusations of misconduct by Willis. But Democrats warn that removing the requirement for the Supreme Court to review rules could leave the commission i...
An appeals court has halted the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others while it reviews the lower court judge's ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case.
Trump criminal case:Georgia is at the heart of former President Donald Trump's attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. On Jan. 2, 2021, Trump called Raffensperger and other election officials,asking them to "find" 11,780 votes— or "one more vote than we have." Fulton County, Georgia,...