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The Associated Press reports: Some Republicans in Washington and Georgia began attacking Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis immediately after she announced the Aug. 14 indictment of former President Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. But others, including Gov. Brian Kemp, have been conspicuous in their unwillingness to pile on. Kemp,declined to comment on the …

The Washington Examiner reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis asked the judge presiding over the sprawling racketeering indictment against former President Donald Trump to expedite the trial for “all 19 defendants” to Oct. 23, 2023. Willis’s Tuesday request came just days after co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro made demands for a speedy trial, prompting Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee …

CNN reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will lay out the first details of her sprawling anti-racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and 17 other co-defendants at a federal court hearing on Monday morning. This will be the first time that substantive arguments will be made in court about the …

Bloomberg News reports: The criminal trial over the alleged attempt by Donald Trump and 18 others to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia should start Oct. 23, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a judge, about five months earlier than her first proposal. Willis made the request in a filing Thursday in Atlanta, the same day Trump is expected …

Mediaite reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis denied a request from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to delay his arrest, in a terse but polite letter to Meadows attorney John Moran. While a parade of those defendants have begun showing up to surrender for arrest, Meadows and his attorney asked for more time — a request that …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Several Republican lawmakers are seeking ways to sanction Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after she brought criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and 18 allies. Trump backers are going after Willis using a new state law approved by Gov. Brian Kemp that creates a state commission with power to sanction or oust prosecutors found …

“There’s no chance in my view that Fani Willis goes [to trial] within two years. Everybody will have motions galore. And if it takes her, you know, two years — I mean, heaven forbid that Trump wins the presidency — then there will be a fight to the Supreme Court over whether she can proceed against the sitting president during …

The Independent reports: Mr Trump’s arraignment date has not been set yet. But in a press conference on Monday evening, Ms Willis announced that arrest warrants have been issued for Mr Trump and his 18 co-defendants and gave them a deadline of 25 August at noon to surrender. Georgia law is unique in that it requires cameras be allowed in …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump and others, including some of his former lawyers and top aides, have been indicted by an Atlanta grand jury in a sweeping racketeering case focused on Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. The indictment — handed up after a single, extra-long day of …

The Washington Post reports: An Atlanta-area prosecutor investigating whether former president Donald Trump and his associates broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia is expected to begin presenting her case before a grand jury early next week. Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who was subpoenaed as a potential witness, said on CNN …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday flatly denied that she had a relationship with a former client and other rumors spread by former President Donald Trump in a new campaign ad. In an email to her colleagues, obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Willis called the information in a television spot bankrolled by the Trump …

CNN reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek more than a dozen indictments when she presents her case regarding efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia before a grand jury next week, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Willis, a Democrat, has been eyeing conspiracy and …

The New York Times reports: The fourth criminal case involving Donald J. Trump is likely to come to a head next week, with the district attorney in Atlanta expected to take the findings from her election interference investigation to a grand jury. Nearly 20 people are known to have been told that they could face charges as a result of …

Reuters reports: Law-enforcement officers surrounded the Fulton County courthouse on Monday in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, amid closed roads and traffic barriers put up to boost security ahead of a possible indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump. The front of the courthouse was lined with rows of orange plastic, water-filled Jersey barriers and steel crowd control barricades. Dozens of county …

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump declared late Thursday that they will appeal a judge’s ruling that shot down their bid to gut Fulton County District Fani Willis’s prosecution of alleged criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. They will challenge an order issued earlier this week by Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who …

Atlanta’s NBC affiliate reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is speaking just ahead of potential charges being filed against former President Donald Trump and his allies. It’s still unclear if Trump will be charged by D.A. Willis, but 11Alive is getting a little more insight into what we can expect in the coming days. Willis said she’s holding true …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: A judge has set a hearing for Aug. 10 on a motion by Donald Trump’s attorneys to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting possible criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election. Legal observers consider Trump’s motion a long shot, but the hearing comes as Willis could be on the verge of asking a recently seated …

Courthouse News reports: As Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis prepares to announce charges in the coming weeks in her investigation of potential criminal interference with Georgia’s 2020 election, former President Donald Trump has made a last-ditch effort to block the indictment he likely faces. Chief Judge Ural Glanville recused the entire judicial bench of the Fulton County court from …

The Guardian reports: The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia has developed sufficient evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month, according to two people briefed on the matter. The racketeering statute in Georgia requires prosecutors to show the existence of an “enterprise” – and a …

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump asked two courts in Georgia to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from investigating him and quash the special grand jury report that recommended criminal charges in Willis’ 2020 election interference probe. The requests came in court documents filed overnight in Georgia Supreme Court and Fulton County Superior Court. In both, Trump’s attorneys …