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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia may have been dealt a blow after the judge presiding over the matter agreed to hear pretrial motions and an appeal against Willis' ability to bring charges against one of the defendants. In August, Trump and 18 other defendants were indicted as part of Willis' probe into alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. On March 28, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee is expected to hear arguments from Trump's lawyers that the Georgia election interference case is intended to criminalize political speech....

This video is live right now and Phil is saying that Fani has had a change of mind about reopening the hearing so that new evidence can be introduced.Phil Holloway is a local Atlanta attorney who has been reporting on the Fani hearing with Megyn Kelly and on NewsNation and has done a great job at keeping people up to date on this matter.

A co-defendant in the 2020 Georgia election interference case has filed a notice of proposed testimony following Terrence Bradley's testimony in the disqualification hearing for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office. The motion was filed on behalf of co-defendant David Shafer, proposing that Shafer would present the testimony of attorney Cindi Lee Yeager, a co-chief deputy district attorney for Cobb County. According to the motion, Yeager reached out to Shafer's counsel after watching Bradley's testimony. Yeager informed the attorneys that she had "numerous" in-person and other conversations with Bradley from around August 2023 through January 2024, during...

A new witness brought forth by a Donald Trump codefendant in Georgia claims to have overheard Fulton County DA Fani Willis speaking to the former law partner of her former lover and gave what is being described as a warning not to talk about what he knows. Witness Terrence Bradley was a critical witness and key figure during court arguments Friday about whether Willis and former boyfriend and special prosecutor Nathan Wade should be disqualified from prosecuting Trump and 18 codefendants. He repeatedly testified that he couldn't recall information when questions about texts with another attorney about when the relationship...

The private law firm of the Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade — who helped charge Donald Trump and 18 Republicans for their role in objecting to the 2020 election — sent a solicitation to an indicted alternate elector purportedly offering to defend him from the charges Wade helped file. On Thursday, David Shafer, one of Georgia’s 2020 Republican electors, revealed on X that he had received a solicitation from Wade & Campbell Firm, the private practice of Nathan Wade. Wade is the special prosecutor who helped DA Fani Willis indict Trump, Shafer, and others for lawfully contesting Georgia’s 2020...

ATLANTA - In the latest sign that she is moving rapidly in her investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis has sent so-called target letters to prominent Georgia Republicans informing them they could be indicted for their role in a scheme to appoint alternate electors pledged to the former president despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state, according to legal sources familiar with the matter. The move by Willis, a Democrat, could have major political implications in a crucial battleground state with high-profile races for governor and the U.S. Senate...

Former state Rep. Geoff Duncan appears to have pulled off an upset win against state Sen. David Shafer, narrowly securing the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. According to unofficial results from Secretary of State’s office, Duncan won by less than one percent of the vote. The Cumming Republican held Shafer off in an extremely close race – one that Shafer almost won outright with nearly 50 percent of the vote in the May primary in what was then a three-way race. Duncan, who served in the state House for five years, ran a campaign as an underdog outsider, often referring...