A grand jury has been impaneled in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s case investigating whether Donald Trump and others should face criminal charges for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. In January 2021, Trump asked Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s victory. Willis has said indictments could come in August.
This comes as Trump’s team has asked to postpone the federal criminal trial related to his handling of classified documents until after the 2024 election.
In more legal woes for the former president, Trump has lost presidential immunity from writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him. On Tuesday, the Justice Department said it would no longer hold the position that Trump’s denial of raping Carroll and derogatory comments made in 2019 were related to his duties as president.