Georgia Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump and the Fulton County investigation will continue to stand

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump. The former president had filed a motion on Friday to quash the investigation being conducted by prosecutor Fani T. Willis in Fulton County, Georgia. According to her, the former president violated state laws by trying to reverse Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

The court’s nine justices ruled unanimously against the Republican’s legal team, which also aimed to strike any evidence gathered by the grand jury and the final report.

“The Court has made clear that a petitioner cannot invoke this Court’s original jurisdiction as a way to circumvent the ordinary channels for obtaining the relief,” the justices wrote in their five-page ruling. “Petitioner 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,” they added.

Willis’ investigation lies squarely on two issues: Trump’s famous call with Brad Raffensperger (Georgia Secretary of State) in which Trump slipped in that he needed to find enough votes to win the election, and his efforts to assemble a sort of surrogate constituency.

Donald Trump and Fulton County, Georgia

In the days after November 3, 2020, Joe Biden managed to outperform Trump in Georgia. When the count ended, the Democrat was up 11,779 votes out of more than 5 million. The Republican’s legal team tried unsuccessfully to prove election interference and cases of fraud sufficient to skew the numbers. Now, the situation could turn against them, especially in Fulton County.

U.S. Attorney Willis has been at the forefront of the investigation from the beginning and is trying to determine whether Trump violated state laws in trying to reverse President Biden’s victory in Georgia. Conversely, the former president accuses Willis of being biased against him, something he already presented before Judge Robert McBurney of the Fulton County Superior Court. The magistrate has ruled against Willis in the past, specifically when he ruled that she could not bring a criminal case against Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones, one of 16 Trump supporters who filed false documents claiming to be the state’s presidential electors.

According to McBurney, the prosecutor had a conflict of interest because she had spearheaded a fundraiser for Jones’ Democratic rival in the lieutenant governor’s race. The New York Times reported that “Willis wrote a letter to law enforcement officials in April that a decision on any charges against Trump or others would be made between July 11 and September 1.”