Trump Loses Another Court Appeal

Georgia Supreme Court turns down Trump lawyers appeal unanimously!

As we are aware, Trump has been under investigation by the Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis for his, and others, role in attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 election.

Trump’s attorneys ask Georgia’s top court late Thursday to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) and her office from further probing whether Trump and his allies broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state.

The petition, filed late Thursday before the Georgia Supreme Court, echoed arguments made in a lower-court motion in April where Trump’s attorneys first pushed to block Willis and her office from investigating whether Trump and his allies broke the law when they sought to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, citing her public comments on the matter.

That motion has been pending before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, whom Trump’s attorneys also sought to have removed from the case. They cited his oversight of the special grand jury, which they claim was conducted “under an unconstitutional statute” and “through an illegal and unconstitutional process” that violated Trump’s due process rights.

In an opinion published late Monday, the nine-member Supreme Court dismissed the petition, writing that Trump had not proved the “extraordinary circumstances” that would warrant an intervention by the state’s top court. The decision said that the petition lacked proof that his constitutional rights had been violated; that “the facts or the law necessary” to remove Willis from the case exist; or that other courts had rejected his claims.

In its opinion, the Georgia Supreme Court appeared critical of the Trump team’s decision to take its case directly to the state’s top court instead of first arguing the case before a lower court judge. “A petitioner cannot invoke this Court’s original jurisdiction as a way to circumvent the ordinary channels for obtaining the relief he seeks without making some showing that he is being prevented fair access to these ordinary channels,” the opinion reads.

The Supreme Court noted that Trump did not ask it to “compel” McBurney to issue a ruling. “Instead, he is asking this Court to step in and itself decide the motions currently pending,” the opinion reads.

“This is not the sort of relief that this Court affords, at least absent extraordinary circumstances that [Trump] has not shown are present here,” the court writes.

Justices for Georgia’s Supreme Court are elected for staggered six-year terms in nonpartisan elections, but the governor can fill vacancies by appointment. Eight of the nine were initially appointed by Republican governors.

Trump’s petition filed Friday in Fulton County Superior Court remains pending.

As was reported in the Washington Post:

“Willis has indicated she could pursue indictments in the coming weeks — a case that is likely to include evidence gathered by the special grand jury. The panel, which did not have the power to issue indictments, issued a final report that remains largely sealed but is believed to have recommended multiple indictments.”