A legal analyst of high standing cautions that the case pursued by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis against former President Donald Trump may not possess the level of certainty and ease of success that is commonly perceived by individuals with liberal political leanings.
Elie Honig, a legal analyst at CNN, cautioned that a significant flaw in the indictment rests in the potential for Trump and his associates to seek a transfer of the trial to a federal court. This maneuver would effectively remove the case from the jurisdiction of the predominantly liberal county in Georgia.
“The other big issue – and we just said this word – is removal. Get ready for a lot of talk about removal. Mark Meadows is already trying to do this. Donald Trump will try to follow. In a nutshell what this means is, if a federal official gets charged with a state crime that relates to that federal official’s official job duties you can get the case-.”
According to Honig, it is crucial to ensure that these duties fall “within the legitimate scope of those jobs,” adding that is “an important qualification. He [Trump and others] can get the case moved over to federal court and then potentially dismissed. So, these are really important motions. Mark Meadows has already done this, Trump is sure to follow.”
“The hard part, it’s a lot of work. You’re not going to be able to try all 19 at once. That’s not going to happen. And you just never know how every one of these defendants, let’s put aside Trump. Every one of these defendants, even the people we heard of is going to mount a furious defense, as is their right to do,” Honig said.
“They all work together as one cohesive entity towards an illegal end,” Honig said. “You have the advantage to pick off some low-hanging fruit and get them to flip.”
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On Monday, a comprehensive indictment of 41 counts was issued against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants.
The ex-president is facing allegations of 13 charges, which encompass three instances of soliciting a public official to breach an oath, two instances of conspiring to commit first-degree forgery, two instances of fabricating false statements and writings, one instance of contravening the Georgia RICO Act, one instance of assuming the identity of a public official, one instance of submitting false documents, and one instance of filing fraudulent documents.
According to Fulton County, the remaining 18 individuals who have been charged include a group of lawyers consisting of Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Robert Cheeley, John Eastman, Ray Smith III, as well as Cathy Latham, who is accused of being an alleged fake elector. Additionally, Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, David Shafer, another alleged fake elector, Shawn Still, Kenneth Chesebro, and Michael Roman, a Trump campaign staffer, are among those charged. Misty Hampton, the Coffee County elections supervisor, Stephen Lee, a Pastor, Trevian Kutti, a Publicist, Willie Lewis Floyd III, the former leader of “Black Voices for Trump,” Jeffrey Clark, a former DOJ official, and Scott Hall, a Bail Bondsman, have also been included in the charges, as reported by the Daily Wire.
Following the public disclosure of the indictment, the Trump campaign issued a statement characterizing DA Willis as an ardent partisan who is actively engaged in campaigning and soliciting funds with the objective of prosecuting President Trump based on these spurious charges.
According to the assertion made, it was said that Willis deliberately delayed her study with the intention of significantly impeding the 2024 presidential contest and undermining the prominent Trump campaign. Furthermore, the statement contended that the allegations put forth were entirely contrived.
Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia and a Republican, refuted Trump’s assertion that his state’s 2020 election was rigged.
“The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen. For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward – under oath – and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I am governor. The future of our country is at stake in 2024 and that must be our focus,” Kemp said on Twitter, now know as X.
Rephrased from: The Republic Brief By: Trump Knows
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