JURIST

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Georgia judge overseeing the trial involving former President Donald Trump and his allies’ alleged interference in the 2020 US presidential election refused on Tuesday to place Harrison Floyd, one of Trump’s co-defendants, in jail ahead of trial. When is [Georgia] leadership going to step up?”

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2021

Judge Brian Amero of Fulton County, Georgia, granted the request of an independent group of election watchers “to inspect and scan the November 3, 2020, general election absentee ballots that are sealed.” ” The group, called VOTER GA , is led by Garland Favorito and describes themselves as an “anti-fraud” group.

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2023

A federal court in Washington DC found former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani guilty on Wednesday of defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss during the 2020 US presidential election. The post Federal judge finds Rudy Giuliani liable for defaming 2 Georgia election workers appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

A grand jury on Thursday indicted former Georgia prosecutor Jackie Johnson on two charges related to her alleged mishandling of the fatal shooting of 25-year old Ahmaud Arbery. Johnson, formerly the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney, is accused of violating her oath of office and obstruction of law enforcement.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed a request Tuesday for an emergency seal of evidence related to the Georgia election interference case against former US President Donald Trump and multiple former Trump attorneys and staff members. In the video of Ellis, she expands upon the statements subsequently leaked to ABC.

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JURIST

AUGUST 15, 2022

A US federal judge Monday told US Senator Lindsay Graham that he must testify before a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury about efforts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election in that state. The post US federal judge orders Senator Lindsay Graham to testify before special Georgia grand jury appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Georgia judge overseeing the state’s 2020 election interference case against former US President Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators agreed Thursday to hear a motion to disqualify the lead prosecutor from the case. Roman also alleged that Willis and Wade began their romantic affair prior to the prosecution.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A group of attorneys on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint against Jeffrey B. Clark, a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, former Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and former Acting Chief of the Department’s Civil Division.

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JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2023

Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 13 state criminal charges on Thursday, filing his plea with an Atlanta, Georgia court. Trump acknowledged that he has a right to appear for a formal arraignment under Georgia state law. One of the two federal cases against Trump is located in Florida.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2023

Michael Cohen, former attorney of former President Donald Trump, settled his lawsuit against the Trump organization Friday. million in legal fees that the Trump Organization refused to pay after Cohen was fired as Trump’s attorney. ” The suit is only one of many ongoing legal disputes involving Trump and Cohen.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2023

A Georgia state judge Monday issued an order dissolving a special purpose grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 general election. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis began her investigation with the grand jury in May 2022.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has opened a criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp concerning the former president’s request to “find” the votes he needed to win the state.

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JURIST

AUGUST 14, 2023

A Georgia grand jury indicted former US President Donald Trump on 13 criminal charges late Monday night. The 41-count indictment alleges that Trump, along with 18 other individuals who were also charged, conspired to interfere in Georgia’s election process during the 2020 US presidential election.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2022

A standing committee of the State Bar of Texas filed a Complaint in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas against former president Donald Trump’s attorney Sidney Powell, claiming that she engaged in misconduct by pursuing baseless lawsuits alleging fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether a Black man sentenced to death in Georgia after the state sought to strike all but one eligible Black juror can satisfy the heightened standard to challenge his conviction. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld that decision.

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JURIST

JULY 3, 2023

A group of seven Georgia parents and children filed a suit in state court Friday attempting to block the state’s ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors, including hormone therapy, surgery and other “irreversible procedures.” Oklahoma agreed to halt its ban in May as legal proceedings continue.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Georgia , a case about water rights between the two neighboring states. After hearing Monday’s argument, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether Georgia will be required to curb its own water use to allow more water to flow into Florida. The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday for the second time in Florida v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A court in Cobb County, Georgia, issued an order Monday to accommodate voters who requested absentee ballots that were never sent. The Georgia ACLU represented voters who had not yet received their absentee ballots in this matter.

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JURIST

JANUARY 8, 2021

Dominion Votings Systems filed a defamation lawsuit Friday against Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell. On the claim that they rigged the Georgia election, they pointed to the mountains of empirical evidence that show otherwise. These show that Powell used false evidence to become part of the Trump legal team and grow her business.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

Transgender Attorney Sheryl Ring Monday won a lawsuit in US district court with a stipulation that Illinois attorney ethics rules do not allow discrimination based on gender identity. The lawsuit began when Ring filed an October 2021 complaint against the Administrator of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.

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JURIST

AUGUST 15, 2023

A group of former Republican legal officials filed an amicus brief Monday in support of a January 2024 trial date in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference criminal case. Trump’s attorney’s attempted to delay the ruling on the protective order but a federal judge dismissed the request.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Georgia deputy attorney general John Fowler alleges that the diary of an environmental activist police shot and killed earlier this year is needed to prove that 61 defendants tied to opposition against a training center near Atlanta, known as “Cop City”, were involved in a criminal conspiracy, Timothy Pratt reports for The Guardian.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A bipartisan legal advocacy group Wednesday filed an informal ethics complaint against Stefan Passantino, the former lawyer of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. As a result, the group asked that the Georgia State Bar conduct an investigation into Passantino’s possible violations of Georgia’s Rules of Professional Conduct.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 16, 2022

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is a target of the criminal investigation in Georgia that has been examining efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state by Donald Trump and his allies, reports The Guardian. Being identified as a target means only that a person may be a defendant in the event of an indictment.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia. Here is the column: Chris Christie once said that Donald Trump is often portrayed by legal counsel as “the unluckiest S.O.B. While a recusal or removal of Willis may delay the case, it will not end the legal threat for Trump.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

Below is my column in the Hill on the recent decision in Georgia and the “odor of mendacity” raising out of various courtrooms across the country. It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system. District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “ a Southern gentleman.

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Law 360

APRIL 26, 2024

Donald Trump and his attorneys have been fighting high-stakes legal battles on several fronts as they grappled with a criminal hush money trial in Manhattan, argued at the U.S. Supreme Court for presidential immunity and tried to quash criminal election interference-related charges in Georgia.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The order resulted from Giuliani’s “failure to comply” with an August 30 order, which was issued after he was found guilty of defaming two Georgia election workers during the 2020 election, claiming they engaged in electoral fraud. million in owed fees.

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Law 360

JULY 8, 2021

Georgia businesses will have another year of legal protection from COVID-19 liability lawsuits, new opportunities to reach endorsement deals with college athletes and shored-up infrastructure under bills passed by the state General Assembly in its spring session.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 11, 2020

“Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election; The suit, filed directly in the Supreme Court, sought to bar Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from casting their electoral votes for Joseph R. ” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Car accident claims are often fraught with legal complexities, and plaintiffs might have a hard time coping as they might still be recovering from their injuries.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Below is my column in Fox.com on the recent decision finding the Georgia election law constitutional. That includes Major League Baseball, which boycotted Georgia over a law now declared constitutional. President Joe Biden famously (and somewhat bizarrely) used the name “Jim Eagle” to characterize the Georgia election law.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Georgia indictment. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. Here is the column from yesterday before the release of the indictment: “ Oh Georgia, no peace I find (no peace I find).”

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Above The Law

AUGUST 1, 2023

* Donald Trump' efforts to get out of legal hot water in Georgia fails. Politico ] * A Mar-A-Lago employee switches up his legal strategy. once he got rid of his Trump-PAC funded attorney. Reuters ] * In Ohio, doctors are on the front line of the legal battle for reproductive freedom. [

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The city clerk’s office said that, while it would store the signatures, it was unable to begin the verification process because of a stay issued by the Eleventh Circuit blocking a lower court’s ruling that allowed campaigners to collect signatures beyond a 60 day deadline imposed by Georgia law. Celebrezze and Burdick v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Superior Court of Glynn County, Georgia ruled on Friday that Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records could not be used as evidence in the trial against the three white men accused of killing the 25-year-old Black man. Arbery was unarmed. The defendants face charges of felony murder and false imprisonment.

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