The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejected former President Donald Trump’s bid to quash a grand jury report that recommends people be indicted.
Trump was also seeking to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 election inquiry. In its ruling, the court said Trump’s legal team had failed to present “extraordinary circumstances” that warranted its intervention in quashing the grand jury report.
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It added that regarding Willis, Trump “has not presented in his original petition either the facts or the law” necessary to warrant her disqualification.
The dismissal comes just weeks before Willis is expected to hand down criminal indictments in her investigation regarding alleged election interference by Trump and his team around the 2020 election. Trump’s bid to block the report was seen as a long shot and was likely his last chance to stop or delay the indictments.
Trump’s legal team had argued that the information obtained by the grand jury investigation was obtained unlawfully so should be discarded. Georgia’s Supreme Court stated in its ruling that they didn’t bring forward proper evidence.
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Trump’s attorneys made a similar filing with the Fulton County Superior Court in March, to which they are still awaiting a response.
“Stranded between the supervising judge’s protracted passivity and the district attorney’s looming indictment, [Trump] has no meaningful option other than to seek this court’s intervention,” a copy of the motion filed before Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, the supervising judge of the special grand jury, read.
