The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously shut down former President Trump’s attempt to stop a potential indictment for tampering with the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state.
In a five-page decision issued Monday afternoon, all nine justices of the Georgia Supreme Court said Trump’s lawyers had failed to make a persuasive case for shutting down the inquiry led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. She has signaled that indictments are possible in the election-related probe in the next few weeks as a grand jury convenes to consider possible charges.
The Georgia court said there was no reason to permit that in these circumstances.
“He makes no showing that he has been prevented fair access to the ordinary channels,” the high court wrote in an opinion not attributed to any specific justice. “He is asking this Court to step in and itself decide the motions currently pending in the superior court. This is not the sort of relief that this Court affords, at least absent extraordinary circumstances that Petitioner has not shown are present here.”
Willis’ probe reportedly focuses on pressure Trump and his allies put on Georgia officials the weeks after the 2020 election to try to reverse Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the Peach State. A key piece of evidence in the probe is an audio recording of a call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to “find 11,780 votes,” which would have pushed Trump across the threshold to claim victory.
Various election officials and national GOP figures have testified during the special grand jury probe.
Trump’s attorneys also filed a petition in March with Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, asking that Willis’ probe be halted. However, McBurney has yet to rule on that motion.
You really undermine your credibility when you ignore the context and then repeat the false canard that President Trump asked Secretary Raffensperger to “find”–that is, impliedly, manufacture– “11,780 votes.” That has been repeated ad nauseam by the left-wing media, but as anyone who spends even ten seconds reviewing the transcript of the call (which is readily available, see, e.g., https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/03/politics/trump-brad-raffensperger-phone-call-transcript/index.html), it is taken grossly out of context. The context is that the legal team had identified hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots; all Raffensperger had to do was find 11,780 of those for the election to have been improperly certified.