A special prosecutor could soon determine if Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones joins a long list of defendants indicted in the 2020 presidential election interference case that has already ensnared a state senator and former President Donald Trump as he seeks a second term in the White House.
Several days ago, the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia began the search for a special prosecutor to review Jones’ involvement as a state senator at the time of the election in November 2020. Jones was among 16 illegitimate GOP electors who signed false certificates declaring Trump the Georgia winner, despite confirmed election results showing Biden by nearly 12,000 votes ahead of the incumbent.
“In almost every case in which an elected prosecutor has conflicted off a case, (prosecuting council) has had to go out and find someone to take the case,” executive director Peter Skandalakis said in a text message. “And, no one has volunteered to take this particular case.”
Trump is scheduled to turn himself into the Fulton County jail on Thursday on charges related to being one of the ringleaders in an alleged criminal racketeering and conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia and several other states.
The grand jury indictments on Aug. 14 resulted in multiple felony counts against 19 defendants, including Trump and his former personal attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several false electoral college voters, including freshman Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still, a Norcross Republican, and David Shafer, a former Georgia Republican Party chairman and state legislator.
Read the 98-page indictment here.
Earlier this year, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified by a judge from pursuing any charges against Jones since she raised money for the eventual Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2022.
There is no timetable to appoint a prosecutor to take up Jones’ case, but…
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