{"id":1975777,"date":"2023-07-18T00:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T04:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-supreme-court-unanimously-rejects-trump-hail-mary-to-stop-potential-indictment\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T04:58:08","slug":"georgia-supreme-court-unanimously-rejects-trump-hail-mary-to-stop-potential-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-supreme-court-unanimously-rejects-trump-hail-mary-to-stop-potential-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Supreme Court unanimously denies Trump&#8217;s attempt to halt potential indictment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-supreme-court-unanimously-rejects-trump-hail-mary-to-stop-potential-indictment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1975777&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Georgia Supreme Court\u200d Rejects\u2062 Trump&#8217;s Attempt\u2063 to\u2064 Derail\u200b Criminal Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2062Georgia Supreme\u200b Court unanimously rejected former President Donald\u2062 Trump\u2019s \u2064last-ditch effort\u200b to\u200d derail\u200c a \u200ccriminal\u200b investigation into efforts \u200cto overturn the 2020 presidential election in\u200d the \u200cstate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s\u200c legal team\u2063 had sought late last week to \u200ddisqualify Fulton \u2063County \u2063District Attorney \u2064Fani Willis from the\u200d investigation \u2064and \u200dto \u201cquash the Special \u200cPurpose Grand Jury\u2019s\u200c report \u2063and\u200c to\u200c bar use of its\u200b contents \u200din \u2063any future \u200dproceedings, whether\u2063 civil or\u200d criminal,\u201d \u2064said \u2062the \u2064high \u200ccourt, on which \u2064eight \u200cof the nine justices were\u200d appointed \u2062by Republican \u200cgovernors.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported\u2064 that\u200b Trump\u2019s legal \u2064team\u2064 could \u2062not\u2064 find any \u200bcase over the\u200b last\u200c 40 years in \u200bwhich the\u2063 state supreme court\u2064 intervened in the manner \u200bthat Trump\u2019s legal team was requesting \u200bthat they\u2064 do for the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, with\u2064 regard to Petitioner\u2019s request \u2063to disqualify\u2064 Willis from representing\u2064 any party \u200din any \u2064and all proceedings involving him,\u2062 we\u200b note\u200d only \u2064that\u200b Petitioner has not \u2064presented in\u2062 his original\u200b petition \u2064either the\u2064 facts \u2062or the\u200c law necessary to \u2064mandate\u200d Willis\u2019s disqualification by \u200cthis Court at \u200bthis \u2063time on this record,\u201d \u2063the \u200cjustices said.\u2064 \u201cFor \u200dthese additional \u200breasons, Petitioner has\u200c not shown that \u2062this\u200d case presents one \u2062of those extremely\u2064 rare circumstances\u200c in\u200c which this\u200b Court\u2019s original \u2063jurisdiction \u2063should be invoked,\u200b and therefore, \u2064the petition\u200d is\u200d dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the \u2062Justices concur,\u201d\u200b the \u2063ruling ends.<\/p>\n<h3>Grand \u2064Jury \u200dSworn \u200cIn to \u2063Consider Indictments<\/h3>\n<p>A\u2064 grand jury in Georgia that\u2063 could decide\u2064 to \u2063indict the former president and his allies \u2063was officially \u2062sworn in \u2064Tuesday afternoon. Jurors \u2063were picked \u200dover the\u2064 course of a \u2063three<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-georgia-grand-jury-sworn-in-to-consider-criminal-charges-against-trump\/\" title=\"New Georgia Grand Jury Sworn In for Trump Criminal Charges.\">-hour selection process<\/a> in\u200b front of Judge Robert\u2064 McBurney in Atlanta, according \u2063to\u2063 ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Willis has reportedly \u2062indicated \u200cin letters\u200d to\u200d local law enforcement\u200c officials that indictments in\u2062 the case \u200ccould happen between\u2063 July \u200b31st and\u200d August 18th, \u2064according to \u200bCBS News.<\/p>\n<p>More than \u200bhalf of\u200b the so-called \u2064Georgia Republican \u201cfake \u200delectors\u201d who\u2064 convened \u2064to declare Trump\u200d the winner \u2063of the \u2062state\u2064 in the\u2063 2020 presidential \u2062election have \u200caccepted immunity\u200c deals from Fulton \u2062County prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The New \u200bYork\u2063 Times reported that one additional\u200b elector represented \u200dby a different\u2062 attorney also\u200d had an\u2062 immunity deal \u200balready in place.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump \u2062is \u2063indicted \u2063in the\u2062 case,\u200c it \u2062will be the third \u200dcriminal \u2064case that \u2063he \u200dfaces\u2064 charges in after \u2062he was\u2062 charged earlier \u200cthis\u2062 year \u200bby Manhattan District Attorney\u2063 Alvin\u2063 Bragg over \u200calleged\u2062 hush money that was paid \u200cto porn actress Stormy Daniels. The case\u200d out \u2064of \u2064New\u2062 York \u200chas been\u2063 widely criticized, including by the political \u2064Left, \u2062as being \u200dweak and politically-motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 most \u200cserious case that Trump \u2064faces\u2062 criminal charges\u2064 in\u2063 involves\u2063 his retention\u2063 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-on-why-he-held-onto-some-boxes-in-docs-case-i-dont-want-to-hand-that-over-to-nara-yet\/\" title=\"Trump kept some boxes in the docs case because he doesn't want to give them to NARA yet.\">classified national defense documents<\/a> that \u200dwere recovered during an FBI \u200craid last August\u2062 after the former\u2062 president\u2062 repeatedly\u2063 refused to \u200chand over \u2063all\u200d the documents\u2064 that\u2064 federal\u200d officials sought back\u200d from him. \u2064He was \u2063not \u2063charged\u200c over \u200bany of \u2063the \u200bdocuments \u2064that \u2064he \u2063did \u200dreturn, meaning\u200b that he \u200dlikely would not\u2064 have been charged \u2063if \u200dhe had simply returned\u2063 all of\u200d the\u200b requested\u200b documents.<\/p>\n<p>The former president also\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-supreme-court-unanimously-rejects-trump-hail-mary-to-stop-potential-indictment\/\" title=\"Georgia Supreme Court unanimously denies Trump's attempt to halt potential indictment.\">faces potential federal criminal\u200b charges<\/a> in\u2062 a separate \u200cinvestigation over his efforts to\u200b overturn the \u200c2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u2062has maintained\u2062 that\u200b he is \u200cinnocent \u2063in all four instances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Supreme Court denied Trump&#8217;s attempt to halt a criminal probe into election interference. His legal team aimed to disqualify the district attorney and halt the grand jury&#8217;s investigation, but their efforts were unanimously rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1975778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}