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The DA probing efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia is empaneling a new grand jury to weigh possible charges against former President Trump. The Atlanta-area prosecutor investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia is empaneling a new grand jury that could ultimately decide whether to approve charges against former President Donald Trump. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis met Tuesday with prospective jurors in front of Judge Robert McBurney at a courthouse near Atlanta, where she has been probing whether Trump and his allies' overtures to state officials in late 2020 amounted to criminal activity. In April, Willis signaled publicly that potential charges could be brought as soon as this summer. MORE: Fulton County DA says charging decisions to come this summer in 2020 election probe Willis officially launched the probe in February 2021, sparked in part by the now-infamous Jan. 2, 2021, phone call Trump made to Ge...

Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 19 defendants in the Georgia election interference case, has asked a judge to unseal a host of underlying records in the case. Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 19 defendants in the Fulton County election interference case, filed a motion Monday asking a judge to unseal a host of underlying records in the case -- including the special grand jury report that recommended charges, the transcripts of testimony heard by the panel, and any recordings of the proceedings. Chesebro is set to stand trial in the case on Oct. 23, after a judge granted his request for a speedy trial. He, Smith and former President Donald Trump were charged along with 16 others earlier this month in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. The former president says his actions were not illegal and that the investigation is politically motivated. MORE: Willis seeks to have al...

A judge has awarded a default judgment to Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss as part of their civil defamation suit against Rudy Giuliani. A federal judge on Wednesday awarded a default judgment to a pair of Georgia election workers as part of their civil defamation suit against former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who also faces separate criminal charges in Fulton County. The mother-daughter tandem of Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss are suing the former New York City mayor for defamation over erroneous remarks he made accusing the pair of fraudulently manipulating ballots on Election Day 2020 in Georgia. In the days after the election, Freeman and Moss became the subjects of a Trump-backed conspiracy theory that was later found to be "false and unsubstantiated," according to an investigation by the Georgia Elections Board. Giuliani, in an appearance before a committee of the Georgia state legislature, told lawmakers that...

Former President Trump's attorney has filed a motion opposing the Fulton County DA's request to try all 19 defendants in her Georgia election case together in October. Former President Donald Trump's attorney filed a motion Wednesday opposing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' new request to try all 19 defendants in her Georgia election interference case together. The Trump filing urged the judge to stick with his earlier ruling that only Kenneth Chesebro -- who filed a speedy trial motion asking for an expediated trial -- stand trial on Oct. 23. Trump and 18 others were charged in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. The former president says his actions were not illegal and that the investigation is politically motivated. MORE: Willis seeks to have all 19 defendants in Georgia election interference case tried together Willis, in a filing Tuesday, reiterat...

Mark Meadows is among six more defendants who have pleaded not guilty in the Georgia election interference case and waived their in-person arraignment set for tomorrow. Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is among six more defendants who have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them in the Georgia election interference case and waived their in-person arraignment set for tomorrow, according to court filings. Meadows, as well as attorney John Eastman, ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, and Cathy Latham, Shawn Still and David Shafer all filed documents Tuesday pleading not guilty . All but one of the 19 defendants , including former President Donald Trump, have now pleaded not guilty in the case and waived their in-person arraignment. Only former Coffee County election s director Misty Hampton still has to enter a plea. MORE: Trump, after entering not guilty plea, seeks to sever his Georgia election interference case Trump and the 18 others were charged last month in a sweeping ra...

Attorneys for former President Trump have notified Georgia state court in Fulton County that they may seek to remove his case to federal court, according to a new filing. Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have notified Georgia state court in Fulton County that they may seek to remove his election interference case to federal court , according to a court filing. If Trump seeks removal to federal court, he would be the sixth defendant in District Attorney Fani Willis' sweeping racketeering case to do so, joining former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham, current Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still, and former Georgia GOP chair David Shafer. Meadows' motion for removal, filed on Aug. 15 by his attorney George Terwilliger and Atlanta-based attorney Joseph Englert, is based on a federal law that they argue requires the removal of criminal proceedings brought in state court to the federal cour...

Former President Trump has filed a motion seeking to have the judge overseeing his federal 2020 election interference case be recused and disqualified. Former President Donald Trump on Monday made his first formal push to have the judge overseeing his federal 2020 election interference case be recused and disqualified , according to a filing from his attorneys. The recusal motion filed by Trump's attorneys cites comments from D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in past cases she oversaw for individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which they argue shows she "suggested that President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned." "Such statements, made before this case began and without due process, are inherently disqualifying," Trump's attorneys said in the motion. "Although Judge Chutkan may genuinely intend to give President Trump a fair trial -- and may believe that she can do so -- her public statements unavoida...

A judge has denied former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' request for an emergency stay of his order rejecting Meadow's request to move his election interference case. The same federal judge who denied former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' effort to move his Fulton County election interference case to federal court has denied Meadows' request for an emergency stay of the order, pending appeal. Judge Steve Jones said in his order Tuesday that Meadows "failed to show a stay should be granted." As part of the order , Jones took note of Meadows' argument that he would be irreparably harmed by the possibility of a trial next month, but the judge said that "no trial date has been set for Meadows, and he admits that it is not guaranteed his trial will be in October." MORE: In Georgia, Meadows requests emergency stay as Giuliani seeks to sever his case Meadows still has a separate, pending motion for emergency stay with the Eleventh Circuit ...

Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state and that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors are set to argue that their criminal charges should be moved from state to federal court ATLANTA -- Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state and that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors are set to argue Wednesday that criminal charges against them should be moved from state to federal court. David Shafer, Shawn Still and Cathy Latham were among the 18 people indicted last month along with Trump on charges they participated in a wide-ranging scheme to keep the Republican president in power after his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. All 19 defendants have pleaded not guilty. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones is set to hear arguments Wednesday on why Shafer, Still and Latham believe the case against them should be tried in federal court rather than in Fulton County Superior Cou...

A judge has ordered a Dec. 11 trial date to determine what damages Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two former Georgia election workers he was found liable for defaming. A federal judge has ordered a Dec. 11 trial date to determine what damages Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two former Georgia election workers he was found liable for defaming . Judge Beryl Howell last month found Giuliani liable for defamatory comments he made about the mother-daughter tandem of Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss. MORE: Giuliani sanctioned by judge in defamation case brought by 2 Georgia election workers The judge sanctioned Giuliani over erroneous remarks he made accusing the pair of fraudulently manipulating ballots on Election Day 2020 in Georgia, while Giuliani was contesting the 2020 election loss by then-President Donald Trump. In the days after the election , Freeman and Moss became the subjects of a Trump-backed conspiracy theory that was later found to be "false and unsubsta...

Several high-level allies of former President Trump could potentially be called as witnesses in the first Georgia election interference trial starting Oct. 23. Several high-level allies of former President Donald Trump -- including Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel and Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn -- could potentially be called as witnesses in the first Georgia election interference trial next month, according to a court filing in the case. McDaniel and Epshteyn were among 52 names that were submitted on a list of potential witnesses and evidence filed Thursday by attorneys for defendant Kenneth Chesebro, who is set to begin trial alongside Sidney Powell on Oct. 23. "Defendant Kenneth Chesebro respectfully provides notice of the following evidence and witness (es) for the 10/13/23 trial ," said the filing from attorneys Scott Grubman and Manubir Arora. MORE: Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood to be prosecution witness in Georgia election case, DA says While not...

Former President Trump's legal team has asked the judge overseeing his federal election interference case for a two-month extension for the filing of pretrial motions. Former President Donald Trump's legal team has asked the judge overseeing his federal election interference case for a two-month extension for the filing of pretrial motions. The current deadline for pretrial motions in the case is Oct. 9, with the case currently scheduled to go to trial on March 4. Trump's legal team argues that this is the "first time a President has been charged for conduct committed while in office, and the first time the leading presidential candidate has been charged in the middle of a campaign by his opponent's administration." MORE: Trump opposes special counsel's request for gag order in Jan. 6 case As a result, they argue, "defense counsel must research and address issues of extreme constitutional import that require careful analysis and briefing." Tr...

A judge has denied former Trump attorney Sidney Powell's request to have her Georgia election interference case dismissed over allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. A judge on Thursday denied a request from former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell to have the Georgia election interference case against her dismiss ed over allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. The ruling, following a hearing in Fulton County, comes just weeks before Powell is scheduled to go to trial alongside Kenneth Chesebro, after the pair both requested speedy trials in the case. MORE: Judge 'very skeptical' of DA's push to try Trump, 18 co-defendants together in Georgia election case "Purely on procedural grounds, I don't believe that this motion to dismiss for misconduct ... has cleared the procedural bar as being under the court's authority," Judge Scott McAfee said. Powell, Chesebro and 17 others, including former President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty in Au...