Trump Files New Attempt To Disqualify Georgia DA

Courthouse News reports:

As Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis prepares to announce charges in the coming weeks in her investigation of potential criminal interference with Georgia’s 2020 election, former President Donald Trump has made a last-ditch effort to block the indictment he likely faces. Chief Judge Ural Glanville recused the entire judicial bench of the Fulton County court from hearing an amended motion filed by Trump’s attorneys that seeks to disqualify Willis’s team and quash the findings from the special grand jury.

The order filed Thursday but made public Friday declared the motion will be heard by “a judge who is not a member of the district” and reassigned the case to Georgia’s Seventh Judicial Administrative District in Cartersville, which oversees 14 counties across the northwestern part of the state. This latest attempt to thwart the investigation comes just four days after the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear Trump’s writs of mandamus and prohibition petition.

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