Donald Trump Georgia Elections Probe: State Supreme Court Rejects Ex-POTUS's Bid To Block DA Fani Willis From Prosecuting Him

Donald Trump lost again, this time after Georgia's highest court rejected his request to block Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting him over his 2020 Georgia election interference, where he sought to overturn the rightful results of the election.

His bid was unanimously shot down by the Georgia Supreme Court, which rejected his lawyers' arguments that Willis and her office should not be able to seek charges against him and that the special grand jury report should be thrown out.

Trump attorneys tried to bar Willis from investigating Trump even further as her office hinted that her investigation is winding down, with charges being revealed as early as next month.

The Georgia State Supreme Court stated in its five-page ruling that the Trump filing against Willis lacked "the facts or the law necessary to mandate Willis's disqualification by this Court at this time on this record."

The Associated Press pointed out that Trump has a similar petition that is currently pending in the Fulton County Superior Court. This was noted in the state Supreme Court ruling, where the justices unanimously declined to overstep the lower court and added that the former president "makes no showing that he has been prevented fair access to the ordinary channels."

The Trump legal team acknowledged that dual filings are unusual but defended it as necessary because of the "tight timeframe."

Why Does Donald Trump Want To Block DA Fani Willis From Investigating Him?

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argued that allowing DA Fani Willis to proceed with her investigation is "a violation of his fundamental constitutional rights" while he "seeks his Party's nomination for the Presidency of the United States."

Willis used special grand juries in her investigations of Trump, though the Trump legal team argues that those grand juries are also unconstitutional.

"A regular Fulton County grand jury could return an indictment any day that will have been based on a report and predicate investigative process that were wholly without authority," argued the former president's lawyers in their filing. "It is one thing to indict a ham sandwich. To indict the mustard-stained napkin that it once sat on is quite another."

This is the latest legal defeat for Trump, who once bragged during the 2016 presidential campaign that Americans would get tired of winning. The former president previously tried to shut down the state-level investigation for his election interference in Georgia to no avail, as well as his myriad of legal actions to try to overturn the elections, all of which were thrown out, many for lack of evidence.

Two Georgia Grand Juries Empaneled in Donald Trump Election Interference Case

Less than a week before the decision, a Georgia judge already empaneled two grand juries that are likely to be the ones who will decide on the former president's fate and whether he will be indicted on election interference charges or not.

Each grand jury panel consists of 23 jurors and three alternates, and they will be hearing cases until September 1, per NBC News. Grand jury members were told by the judge that they need only to find probable cause to indict a person and stressed that their decisions must be based on the law.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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