Anna Bower Explains It All For You
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Fulton County DA Fani Willis is closing in on Donald Trump's 2020 election meddling. She could begin issuing indictments as soon as December, CNN reports. In the meantime, she's gotten testimony from a long list of the former president's allies, and she's sought testimony from even more who are still resisting. All of this has America wondering: what the heck is a special purpose grand jury? Why can't it indict people? And what does it mean for Rudy Giuliani to be a target of a grand jury if it can't even issue any indictments?
To talk it over, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare’s Fulton County court reporter Anna Bower, who wrote a Q&A piece entitled, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Georgia Special Purpose Grand Juries But Were Afraid to Ask.”
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.8 | I think it is this leaper case that's going to rise up and be the potential demise of Donald |
| 0:41.2 | Trump. |
| 0:42.2 | I think that if I were Donald Trump, I would be very, very, very worried. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm Benjamin Whittis and this is the LawFair podcast October 18, 2022. |
| 0:55.0 | Walton County DA Fanny Willis is closing in on Donald Trump's 2020 election meddling. |
| 1:04.4 | She could begin issuing indictments as soon as December CNN reports she's been busy |
| 1:11.5 | in the meantime. |
| 1:13.0 | She's gotten testimony from a long list of the former president's allies and she's sought |
| 1:19.6 | testimony from even more who are still resisting. |
| 1:24.3 | All of which has America wondering and I'm sure you're wondering what the heck is a special |
| 1:30.0 | purpose grand jury? |
| 1:32.0 | Why can't it indict people and what does it mean for Rudy Giuliani to be a target of |
| 1:38.0 | a grand jury if it can't even issue any indictments? |
| 1:41.8 | You know, what's going on down there in Fulton County and this is the reason why I asked |
| 1:47.5 | our Fulton County court reporter Anna Bauer to write a big Q&A piece entitled Everything |
| 1:55.5 | You Ever Wanted to Know About Georgia Special Purpose Grand Juries, but we're afraid to |
| 2:00.6 | ask. |
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