- The former president’s legal team filed a petition Monday with a Georgia state court to try to bar the Fulton County district attorney from pressing charges against him.
- The district attorney is looking into whether Trump tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election results.
- Trump attorney Drew Findling submitted the filing to the county’s Superior Court, asking that District Attorney Fani Willis be barred from further involvement in the investigation and that a grand jury report regarding Trump’s attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 election in the state be “quashed.”
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Trump Team Tries To Bar Georgia DA Fani Willis From Charging Him
The former president alleges the proceedings violate his Fifth and 14th Amendment rights.
US President Donald Trump speaks during his final Make America Great Again rally of the 2020 US Presidential campaign at Gerald R. Ford International Airport November 3, 2020, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
