Lawfare Archive: A Very Special Grand Jury Report
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
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From January 10, 2023: District Attorney of Fulton County Fani Willis has completed her special grand jury investigation of election tampering in 2020. The special purpose grand jury has completed its report and has been dissolved, and the supervising judge yesterday scheduled a hearing for January 24 to decide whether to make the report public. What will happen next? Will there be indictments? Are they going to wait until after the report comes out, or should we expect them imminently? Should we expect a Trump indictment coming next?
To go over it all, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare contributor Anna Bower, Georgia State University Law Professor Anthony Michael Kreis, and Tamar Hallerman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and co-host of the podcast Breakdown, which has followed the special grand jury from the beginning.
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| 1:46.8 | On May 11th, Anna Bauer and Lawfare published over 60 transcripts and recordings |
| 1:51.7 | that were heard by the Fulton County Special Grand Jury throughout its investigation into |
| 1:56.3 | election interference in Georgia during the 2020 presidential election. Many of these transcripts and |
| 2:03.0 | recordings have not been available to the public. Until now. For today's archive, I chose an |
| 2:08.1 | episode from January 10, 2020, in which Benjamin Wittes sat down with Anna Bauer, Anthony Michael |
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