The Georgia Supreme Court issued an order on Monday unanimously rejecting former US President Donald Trump’s attempts to prevent the release and use of a special purpose grand jury investigation into 2020 election interference claims.
In February of this year, a Georgia lower court allowed parts of the grand jury report to be released, where the jury concluded there was “no widespread fraud” in the Georgia 2020 presidential election.
Trump petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to prevent the use of the report in any future civil or criminal proceedings, to stop the state’s district attorney from introducing evidence obtained in the investigation to a grand jury and to disqualify the Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from any further proceedings. In March, Trump filed a nearly identical request with a Georgia lower court, but that request has not been ruled on.
The Georgia Supreme Court stated in its order that even if a special purpose grand jury acted illegally, precedent shows “neither dismissal of the subsequent indictment nor suppression of the evidence was the proper remedy for the grand jury’s overreach because no violation of defendant’s constitutional rights and no structure defect in the grand jury process occurred.”
Last week, Trump asked a federal court to postpone his classified documents trial, where he faces 37 criminal counts, indefinitely due to “unprecedented legal issues.”