Just weeks before a grand jury in Georgia may consider charges against Donald Trump, the former president asked a pair of courts to step in and bar a report that may form the underpinnings of a potential case against him.
Trump attorneys on Georgia grand jury foreperson's interviews
In Trump's filings this week, his attorneys noted that a charging decision could come soon. Willis indicated in letters to County officials that any potential indictments in the case would be made between July 31 and Aug. 18. Willis' office responded in May, asking that Trump's effort to quash be dismissed, saying it was"procedurally flawed and advanced arguments that lack merit."who may consider charges, has not ruled on the March effort to quash."Even in an extraordinarily novel case of national significance, one would expect matters to take their normal procedural course within a reasonable time," they wrote."But nothing about these processes have been normal or reasonable.
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