Former President Trump’s attorneys filed a motion last week to quash a Georgia special purpose grand jury’s investigative report which recommended indictments in connection to alleged efforts by him and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Now, a judge on Monday gave the district attorney until May 1 to respond.
In a 52-page page filing, which includes 431 more pages of exhibits, Trump’s Atlanta-based attorneys, Jennifer Little, Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg, argued that the conduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who presided over the special grand jury, and the jurors themselves, including special grand jury forewoman Emily Kohrs, tainted the investigation. Trump’s legal team demanded another judge recuse the prosecutor’s office from handling the case.
“The whole world has watched the process of the (special purpose grand jury) unfold and what they have witnessed was a process that was confusing, flawed and, at times, unconstitutional,” the filing says. “Given the scrutiny and gravity of the investigation and those individuals involved — namely, the movant President Donald J. Trump, this process should have been handled correctly, fairly and with deference to the law and the highest ethical standards.”
In an order Monday, McBurney ordered Willis’ office to respond to the motion no later than May 1.
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The Georgia motion argues McBurney violated the rights of some of the parties targeted in the investigation by speaking to the media.
In deeming the investigation criminal instead of civil in nature, McBurney caused “a negative ripple effect on the…
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