Former President Donald Trump returned to Georgia court on Friday in his effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from investigating him for election interference and to overturn the final report of a special purpose grand jury that recommends that people be indicted.
Trump’s lawyers filed similar motions in both the Georgia Supreme Court and Fulton County Superior Court. The filing in Georgia’s highest court said such a motion is usually disfavored, but “extraordinary circumstances” warrant it.
“Even in an extraordinarily novel case of national importance, matters should be expected to take their normal procedural course within a reasonable time,” the motion said. “But none of these processes have been normal or reasonable. And the almost inevitable conclusion is that the following anomalies are because the petitioner is President Donald J. Trump.”
The attorneys, Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little, sought that relief in a motion filed in March before Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney. McBurney, the supervising judge of the special grand jury, has not yet issued a decision.
Because Willis has notified local court officials and law enforcement he is likely to seek an indictment sometime between July 31 and Aug. 18, court action is now required, the motion said.
“Stuck between the supervising judge’s protracted inaction and the district attorney’s impending indictment, (Trump) has no meaningful option other than to seek this court’s intervention,” the motion said.
A spokesman for the DA’s office declined to comment on the filing. McBurney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
