What's up with the Fulton County Special Grand Jury

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this month, the Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference into Georgia's 2020 elections subpoenaed members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Senator Lindsay Graham, among others.

To discuss these high profile subpoenas and some of the finer points of Georgia state criminal procedure, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Tamar Hallerman, reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who is covering the Fulton County Trump probe, and who also formally served as the papers Washington correspondent covering the Trump administration. Tamar also hosts a weekly podcast on the special grand jury called The Breakdown.

They discussed the scope of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's criminal probe, how a special grand jury operates in the state of Georgia, what this one has been up to, and what's next for the investigation.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:55.6	Right when DA Willis announced that she was looking into this, you know, attempts to overturn
1:16.2	the election results, she wrote letters to Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State
1:21.2	Brad Raffinsberger, Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor asking them to preserve documents
1:26.4	as part of this probe.
1:27.4	Basically, we're going to want these, don't delete them, don't shred them.
1:31.4	And in that letter, she listed about a half dozen state laws that might have been broken
1:36.6	by Trump or his allies.
1:39.0	You know, quite narrow ones like criminal solicitation to commit election fraud that carry
1:43.0	with it up to one to three years in prison if somebody commits a felony, all the way to
1:47.6	racketeering, which is super broad and if somebody's found guilty of that, that's five to
1:52.6	20 years in prison.
1:57.2	I'm Tyler McBride, managing editor of LawFair and this is the LawFair podcast July 18th,
2:03.6	2022.
2:04.6	Earlier this month, the Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal
2:09.2	interference into Georgia's 2020 elections subpoenaed members of former president Donald
2:14.0	Trump's inner circle, including Rudy Giuliani, Johnny Smith, and
1:48.8	Senator Lindsey Graham, who was the president of the state of the state.
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