Georgia Supreme Court dismisses Trump bid to shut down Fulton County probe
By Curt_Anderson July 17, 2023 4:14 pm Category: Law (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Trump's bid to end the Georgia election interference prosecution was made Friday. The Georgia Supreme Court's decision didn't take long, just one business day, to dismiss Trump's request. -- CA
(CNN)The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a long shot legal bid from former President Donald Trump to essentially shut down the Fulton County criminal probe into his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia.
The court said in a five-page opinion that Trump hadn’t demonstrated the "extraordinary circumstances" that would require their intervention at this time. Trump had asked the Georgia justices to throw out the wide array of evidence collected so far in the Fulton County investigation and to block state prosecutors from ever using that material in any future criminal or civil proceedings.
"(Trump) has not shown that this case presents one of those extremely rare circumstances in which this Court's original jurisdiction should be invoked, and therefore, the petition is dismissed," the ruling said.
The decision was unanimous. Eight of the nine members of the Georgia Supreme Court were appointed by Republican governors.
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