A judge in Georgia is set to publicly disclose on Thursday portions of a special grand jury’s final report on its investigation into possible election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney earlier this week ordered the release of the report’s introduction and conclusion, as well as a section detailing jurors’ concerns that some witnesses may have lied under oath.
Those sections “are ripe for publication” because they don’t identify any witnesses, McBurney said in an order Monday. He delayed their release until Thursday in order to give the parties involved time to discuss possible redactions.
The full report will include recommendations on whether anyone should face criminal charges related to the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. But that portion won’t be released publicly — at least not yet, McBurney said.
He has directed the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to provide periodic updates about the status of its probe so he can reassess if other parts of the final report “can be properly disclosed.”
The decision on whether or not to issue indictments falls to Willis, whose investigation is ongoing.
The special grand jury was seated last May to investigate possible efforts to disrupt the 2020 elections in Georgia and to recommend whether anyone should be criminally prosecuted.
After sifting through evidence and hearing testimony from dozens of witnesses — including multiple Trump allies, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. — the grand jury in December submitted its final report, recommending that it be published.
“Having reviewed the final report, the undersigned concludes that the special purpose grand jury did not exceed the scope of its prescribed mission,” McBurney wrote in Monday’s order. “Indeed it provided the District Attorney’s office with exactly what she requested: a roster of who should (or should not) be indicted, and for what, in relation to the…
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