Former President Donald Trump‘s legal counsel moved to quash the final report from the special purpose grand jury that is recommending indictments involving efforts to subvert the 2020 general election results in Fulton County, Georgia.
The Monday court filing seeks to prevent the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office from using any information derived from the special grand jury investigation, and it seeks to recuse the district attorney’s office from pursuing charges in the case.
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Notice of the filings was published on the Superior Court Clerk’s Office docket.
“The FCDA’s Office must be recused, disqualified, and prevented from any further investigation or prosecution of this matter. The Supervising Judge has already held that the FCDA’s Office has an actual, disqualifying conflict in this investigation,” said the 51-page filing, which includes 433 additional pages of exhibits.
Movement from Trump attorneys in the Georgia investigation also coincides with Trump’s own expectations that he will be indicted Tuesday in a separate case by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, on charges related to the investigation into hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
The filing in the Superior Court comes as prosecutors in the Atlanta area are reportedly considering conspiracy and racketeering charges in the sprawling inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said last summer she is a “fan of RICO,” arguing it is a “tool that allows a prosecutor’s office and law enforcement to tell the whole story.”
In February, a judge presiding over the 26-member grand jury released portions of the report but left much of the details redacted, following Willis’s request to protect a possible criminal investigation and shield the rights of possible “defendants” in the case.
At the time of the release, the report noted that a majority of the grand jury believed at least one of the over 75 witnesses who testified in the investigation committed perjury or lied under oath.
“A majority of the Grand Jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it. The Grand Jury recommends that the District Attorney seek appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is compelling,” according to the nine-page report.
Some of the figures who testified were former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, along with lawmakers, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who unsuccessfully fought his subpoena up to the Supreme Court.
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Willis began her investigation into alleged election interference days after a recording was posted of a January 2021 phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in Georgia.
Other areas of focus for the special grand jury include the formation of a so-called alternate slate of GOP electors who met at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020 and signed certificates purporting that Trump had won the Georgia general election.
