Tag: Fulton County (Ga)

Trump’s Defense Team Argues First Amendment Prohibits Georgia Charges

Donald J. Trump’s lead defense lawyer in Georgia argued in court on Thursday that the former president’s criminal indictment should be dismissed because it was based on comments that Mr. Trump had made about the 2020 presidential election that were protected by the First Amendment. The lawyer, Steven H. Sadow, said that Mr. Trump’s comments, […]

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Fani Willis Hangs Onto Trump Case, but More Turbulence Lies Ahead

After revelations of Fani T. Willis’s romance with a subordinate sent the Georgia criminal case against Donald J. Trump down a two-month detour worthy of a soap opera, a judge’s ruling on Friday resolved a major cliffhanger. Ms. Willis could continue prosecuting the case, so long as her ex-boyfriend withdrew from it. But the resignation […]

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Trump Georgia Case: Takeaways From the Ruling on Fani Willis’s Conduct

The much-anticipated ruling on whether Fani T. Willis should be disqualified from prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump and 14 of his allies in Georgia came on Friday, requiring her to make an unusual decision. Ms. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., can keep control of the state election interference case that has […]

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What We Know About the Relationship Between Fani Willis and Nathan Wade

The allegations of a romance between Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, and Nathan J. Wade first emerged in a January filing by Ashleigh Merchant, a lawyer for Michael Roman, one of former President Donald J. Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia. In her filing, Ms. Merchant said that Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade, whom […]

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Judge Quashes Six Charges in Georgia Election Case Against Trump

In a surprise move on Wednesday, a judge in Atlanta quashed six of the charges against former President Donald J. Trump and his allies in the sprawling Georgia election interference case, including one related to a call that Mr. Trump made to pressure Georgia’s secretary of state in early January 2021. The judge, Scott McAfee […]

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Trump Lawyers Offer New Witness in Effort to Disqualify Fani Willis in Georgia

Defense lawyers in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump say they want to put someone on the stand whose testimony could back up their assertion that Terrence Bradley, a witness in their effort to disqualify the prosecutors running the case, gave misleading testimony. The new information comes from Cindi Lee […]

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What’s a Little Hyperbole Among Friends?

Gail Collins: So Bret, Donald Trump gets a roughly $355 million fine for fibbing about his fortune. Too much? Too little? Am I wrong for starting to chortle? Bret Stephens: Gail, I would never want to stop you from chortling, but here goes: I think the case was ridiculous and the verdict outrageous. And dumb. […]

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After Testimony in Atlanta, Willis Receives Both Praise and Condemnation

It has been a rare point of consensus about the case brought by Georgia prosecutors against former President Donald J. Trump: the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, probably made a mistake by having a romantic relationship with a co-worker. But the agreement ends there. As people in Atlanta and its suburbs digested gripping […]

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An Explosive Hearing in Trump’s Georgia Election Case

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Willis Prepares to Take Witness Stand for Second Day in Trump Georgia Case

Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, will take the witness stand for a second day of questioning Friday morning as a hearing continues over whether her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case presents a conflict of interest. In the hearing, which will resume at 9 a.m., the […]

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Legal Experts Skeptical of Conflict of Interest Claim in Trump Georgia Case

Several legal experts who observed Thursday’s hearing in the Georgia case against Donald J. Trump and his allies were doubtful that the defense’s questioning and witness testimonies demonstrated a clear conflict of interest on the issue of whether the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, and the special prosecutor, Nathan J. Wade, benefited financially […]

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With Everything on the Line, Fani Willis Delivered Raw Testimony

Fani T. Willis walked unaccompanied through the front door of a Fulton County courtroom on Thursday afternoon in a bright magenta dress and announced she was ready to testify. She was interrupting her lawyer, who at that very moment was trying to convince a judge that she should not have to testify at all. “I’m […]

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What Happens if Fani Willis Is Disqualified From the Trump Case?

The stakes will be high on Thursday when a judge in Atlanta seeks to determine whether the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, should be disqualified from leading the prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump on election interference charges. If Judge Scott McAfee determines that Ms. Willis has a conflict of interest because […]

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In Trump Georgia Case, Thorny Conflict of Interest Question Looms

At the heart of the effort to disqualify the prosecutors in Donald J. Trump’s election interference case is the argument that the romantic relationship between Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, and Nathan J. Wade, the special prosecutor she hired, created a conflict of interest. That argument has been put forth primarily by […]

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Trump Co-Defendant Suggests Georgia Prosecutors Lied About Relationship Timing

A lawyer for one of former President Donald J. Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election case suggested on Friday that the two prosecutors leading the case had lied about when their romantic relationship started. The defense lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, said that a witness she hoped to put on the stand could testify that the romantic […]

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Fani Willis Admits Relationship With Colleague Nathan Wade in Trump Georgia Case

Fani T. Willis, the district attorney prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump, acknowledged on Friday a “personal relationship” with a prosecutor she hired to manage the case but argued that it was not a reason to disqualify her or her office from it. The admission came almost a month […]

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Prosecutor on Trump Georgia Case Settles Divorce, Avoiding Testimony

The special prosecutor leading the election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump will not have to testify this week about an alleged romantic relationship with his boss, Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, after reaching a divorce settlement on Tuesday. The resolution of the divorce between the special prosecutor, Nathan J. […]

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Trump Joins Motion to Disqualify Prosecutor in Georgia Election Case

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday joined an effort to disqualify Fani T. Willis from leading the election interference case against Mr. Trump in Georgia, on the grounds that she created a conflict of interest by hiring her romantic partner to help prosecute the case. Mr. Trump’s lawyers also raised a new […]

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How Allegations Against Nathan Wade and Fani Willis Complicated Trump Georgia Case

Fani T. Willis ran for district attorney in Georgia’s Fulton County in 2020 with the slogan “Integrity matters!” and frequently pummeled the incumbent, her former boss, with accusations of ethical lapses. Soon after her victory, she set up a group to interview job candidates called the Integrity Transition Hiring Committee. One of its members was […]

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Fani Willis Defends Hiring of Outside Lawyer in Trump Georgia Case

Fani T. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., pushed back on Sunday against the criticism and questions about her judgment that have followed a court filing accusing her of being romantically involved with the outside lawyer she hired to lead the racketeering case against former President Donald J. Trump. Ms. Willis emerged from […]

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Fani Willis Faces Upheaval in Trump Georgia Inquiry

Nearly three years after she began investigating former President Donald J. Trump and his allies, Fani T. Willis is facing the biggest test of her handling of the landmark election interference case. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., was accused this week of being romantically involved with the lead prosecutor she hired […]

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Trump Seeks Details of Atlanta Prosecutor’s Meetings with Biden Aides

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump are seeking more information about discussions Atlanta prosecutors had with the Biden White House, as well as with the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Mr. Trump has claimed for some time that the election interference case brought against him by […]

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Filing in Georgia Trump Case Claims ‘Improper’ Relationship Between Prosecutors

A lawyer for one of the defendants charged along with former President Donald J. Trump in the Georgia election interference case said in a court filing on Monday that the district attorney overseeing the case, Fani T. Willis, had engaged in a “clandestine” relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to help handle it. The […]

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Trump Lawyer Expected to Make First Arguments to Judge in Georgia Case

A lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump is expected to argue in an Atlanta courtroom on Friday that to have a fair trial on state charges in Georgia, Mr. Trump needs access to lists of the government’s evidence in a related federal case against him. The hearing, which began on Friday morning, is the […]

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Trump’s Georgia Lawyer, Steven Sadow, May Soon Drop His Quiet Strategy

Steven H. Sadow, the lead lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump in his Georgia criminal case, has been praised by the Atlanta rapper T.I. — one of Mr. Sadow’s former clients — as “probably the best criminal defense attorney of his time,” a man with “a slight hint of genius.” If so, much of […]

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Young Thug’s YSL RICO Trial: What to Know

Who is Jeffery Williams, a.k.a. Young Thug? Mr. Williams, 32, is one of modern Atlanta’s rap icons, having remade the genre in his image over the past decade. Combining psychedelic experimentalism in voice, melody, lyricism and fashion with a hardened street edge and a sneaky pop sensibility, Mr. Williams has earned three No. 1 albums […]

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Georgia Judge Weighs Revoking Bail for a Trump Co-Defendant, Harrison Floyd

Prosecutors in Atlanta will ask a judge on Tuesday to revoke the bond of Harrison Floyd, who was indicted along with former President Donald J. Trump in the Georgia election interference case. The district attorney overseeing the case filed a motion last week accusing Mr. Floyd of intimidating potential witnesses through his social media posts. […]

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Georgia Prosecutor Sees Trump Case Stretching Into 2025

Fani T. Willis, the Atlanta district attorney leading an election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump and 14 of his allies, said on Tuesday that a trial would very likely “not conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025.” She also defended the scope of the racketeering indictment she brought […]

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Pastor Indicted With Trump in Georgia Asks Evangelical Supporters for Help

The Rev. Stephen C. Lee is one of the lesser-known figures indicted with former President Donald J. Trump in Fulton County, Ga., on charges of unlawfully conspiring to keep Mr. Trump in power after the 2020 election. But on Thursday night at an evangelical church near Chicago, dozens of people held their arms aloft and […]

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Jenna Ellis Could Become a Star Witness Against Trump

When Jenna Ellis last week became the most recent lawyer to join in an accelerating series of guilty pleas in the Fulton County, Ga., prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators, she offered a powerful repudiation of the “Big Lie” that could potentially cut the legs out from under Donald Trump’s defense, make her a […]

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Trump’s Lawyers Should Have Known Better

At a pivotal moment during one of the Watergate hearings in 1973, President Richard Nixon’s counsel, John Dean, asked a question that still resonates: “How in God’s name could so many lawyers get involved in something like this?” In the aftermath of Nixon’s resignation, the issue posed by Mr. Dean’s bracing question triggered a revolution […]

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