Georgia

2022 - 8 - 27

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Of all the legal threats Trump is facing, is this the one that could take ... (The Guardian)

The quiet workings of a Georgia grand jury hearing evidence of election fraud could represent the ex-president's greatest danger.

But it said that defence is likely to fail, because immunity from liability only extends to actions taken by the president that were within the scope of his lawful duties. Willis must then decide whether to follow that recommendation and appoint a regular grand jury to seek an indictment against Trump or anyone else. “The focus for this grand jury is solicitation of election fraud. Legislators refused to play along and the Trump campaign instead sent 16 “fake electors” using false election certificates – another failed attempt to overturn the election replicated in six other states lost by Trump. Although Rico is more commonly associated with prosecution of organised crime, Willis used it seven years ago to convict 11 Atlanta teachers of fixing test scores for their students. The creation of a slate of electors, which took the position that Trump had won the election, will come under that sort of umbrella. Lawyers said that given that any charges against Trump would further inflame America’s already raw politics, Willis will want to make sure she has an airtight case to head off accusations of a political prosecution. Then we’ll probably have the grand jury looking at criminal conspiracy and violation of oath of office,” he said. His lawyers filed a series of lawsuits making extraordinary claims of foreign interference and other conspiracy theories. It remains unclear what, if any, criminal charges might come out of Congresses investigation into the 6 January, 2021 assault on Congress. They too resisted the pressure. Two days before he testified last month, Giuliani was informed he is also a

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Election Data Breach Attracts Georgia Investigators (The New York Times)

The district attorney in Atlanta is seeking to build a broad conspiracy case that encompasses multifaceted efforts by Trump allies to disrupt and overturn ...

Powell and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, met at the plantation to explore “options to influence the results” of the 2020 election “in Georgia and elsewhere.” “When election officials permit or facilitate untrustworthy actors in gaining access to the system without any oversight, that is in and of itself going to leave the public questioning whether they trust these systems.” The costs of election security breaches have been onerous. Powell is among those who have been sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems, the company that provides the voting machines for Coffee County and the rest of Georgia. She is seeking to remove herself from the case because one of the people potentially implicated in the scheme is her likely Republican election opponent, Matthew DePerno. Many of the details of the Coffee County visit were included in emails and texts that surfaced in civil litigation brought by voting rights activists against Georgia’s secretary of state; news of the breach was reported earlier by The Washington Post. A special grand jury has been impaneled with the sole purpose of investigating election meddling in the state and has already heard testimony from more than 30 witnesses, including Mr. Powell made a number of specious claims about election fraud, including an assertion that Democrats had “developed a computer system to alter votes electronically.” 16, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation also confirmed that it was working with the Georgia secretary of state’s office on an investigation into the Coffee County data breach, court records show. This week, court filings revealed that the Coffee County data breach is now part of the sprawling investigation into election interference being conducted by Fani T. Willis is seeking to build a broad conspiracy and racketeering case that encompasses multifaceted efforts by Trump allies to disrupt and overturn the lawful election of Joseph R. It was part of an effort by Trump allies in a number of swing states to access and copy sensitive election software, with the help of friendly election administrators.

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Pro-Trump lawyer says subpoenaed by Georgia grand jury ... (Reuters)

Conservative attorney L. Lin Wood said he had been subpoenaed to appear before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former U.S. President Donald ...

Wood shared a letter on Telegram sent to his lawyer Reyes by Trina Lucas, a deputy chief investigator with the Fulton County District Attorney's office. "I have NO relevant knowledge to offer to the grand jury," Wood said. President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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Prosecutor seeks Trump lawyer testimony on voting system breach ... (PBS NewsHour)

The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking ...

The company maintains that “at the time they engaged in that work, they were operating under the good faith belief that their client was authorized to access the voting machines and servers.” The lawsuit was dismissed, but somehow a copy of the voting system ended up being distributed publicly at the Lindell event, according to attendees. “SullivanStrickler was retained by and took direction from licensed, practicing attorneys to preserve and forensically copy the Dominion Voting Machines used in the 2020 election,” the statement said. The Coffee County case appears similar to breaches of voting equipment elsewhere. In Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters and her deputy were indicted in connection with a May 2021 security breach at the election office. A document listing the contents of Maggio’s hard drive shows that it includes forensic images of an election management system server, a precinct tabulator, compact flash cards and thumb drives used to program tabulators and touchscreen voting machines, a computer used to check in voters and a laptop computer supplied by Dominion. 15 opened “a computer trespass investigation of a Coffee County elections server,” spokesperson Nelly Miles said in an email. In her court petition filed Thursday, Willis said Powell is “known to be affiliated” with Trump and the Trump campaign and has unique knowledge about her communications with them and others “involved in the multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere.” 2, 2021, phone call](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-georgia-secretary-of-states-office-holds-press-conference) in which Trump suggested Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to overturn Trump’s narrow election loss in the state. The next steps, he said, are to complete the forensic investigation and interview witnesses. The subject of the invoice is “Voting Machines Analysis.” The plaintiffs want the machines replaced by a system that uses hand-marked paper ballots.

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Georgia Probe 'Closing in' on Trump and His Allies: Glenn Kirschner (Newsweek)

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' probe into Donald Trump's actions following the 2020 presidential election is "closing in" on the ex-president, ...

A [heavily-redacted, yet much-anticipated, affidavit](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-affidavit-four-key-takeaways-unsealed-mar-lago-fbi-1737541) related to the search was released on Friday. Kemp's attorneys last week said that the governor shouldn't have to testify due to sovereign immunity, executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, and proximity to the midterm elections, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [Joe Biden](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/joe-biden), including Georgia. Nothing sticks," Kirschner said. The former president also said that the FBI search was part of a broader partisan "witch hunt" targeting him and his family. He will go into the grand jury. Gov Kemp made absurd/losing arguments in court yesterday," Kirschner tweeted. He will lose. [Brian Kemp](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/brian-kemp), a Republican who has been critical of both Trump's actions [and Willis' investigation](https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-fulton-county-district-attorney-fani-willis-subpoena-allegations-1734632), will eventually testify before the grand jury. Graham was handed a win last week after an appeals court [FBI investigation draws attention](https://www.newsweek.com/mar-lago-raid-was-doj-trying-get-camels-nose-under-tent-trump-1735843) from many experts and pundits, Kirschner said Friday that the Georgia investigation has been circling in on key Trump confidants, including [Rudy Giuliani](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/rudy-giuliani) and Senator [Lindsey Graham](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/lindsey-graham), a South Carolina Republican—both of whom have been subpoenaed by a grand jury in the case. The Georgia investigation is one of several probes into Trump's conduct surrounding the election.

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Meadows, Powell Testimony Sought in Georgia Election Probe ... (New Delhi Times)

The prosecutor investigating whether Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking to compel testimony from ...

It’s then up to the district attorney to decide whether to ask a regular grand jury for an indictment. She noted that publicly reported emails indicate that Powell coordinated with a data solutions company to get elections data from Coffee County in early January 2021 and was involved in similar efforts in Michigan and Nevada. He was also on a January 2, 2021, phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, during which Trump suggested the state’s top elections official could “find” enough votes to overturn his narrow election loss in the state. In the petition seeking Meadows’ testimony, Willis wrote that Meadows attended a December 21, 2020, meeting at the White House with Trump and others “to discuss allegations of voter fraud and certification of electoral college votes from Georgia and other states.” The next day, Willis wrote, Meadows made a “surprise visit” to Cobb County, just outside Atlanta, where an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes was being conducted. And Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who was part of the earlier batch of Trump associates whom Willis sought to compel to testify, filed a motion to quash his subpoena. Meadows, Trump’s final chief of staff, and Powell, a dogged advocate of the president’s false claims of widespread election fraud, are among the highest-profile members of Trump’s circle to be summoned to testify in the probe, joining other top figures including Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and U.S.

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Judge set to rule on Kemp motion to avoid Fulton grand jury subpoena (The Current)

A Fulton County judge will decide whether Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp must testify before a special grand jury after prosecutors and state attorneys sparred in ...

“We all know as things heat up, defensive attorneys are required to zealously represent their clients and we would not expect anything else in this case,” she said during a briefing hosted by the States United Democracy Center. Brian Kemp is asking Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney to quash a subpoena in the 2020 presidential investigation special grand jury. Fulton prosecutors have been busy over the last month fending off a flurry of attempts to block subpoenas made by Kemp, U.S. On Thursday, prosecutor Daniel Wakeford explains to McBurney why he disputes Kemp attorneys claiming that the governor is protected by sovereign immunity. As the Fulton case unfolds, a similar U.S. “What jumps out to me is that (prosecutors) think their authority is unlimited and that they are performing a criminal investigation,” he said. Willis wants to ask Kemp about the pressure Trump and his allies heaped on him to call a special session of the Legislature to overturn Joe Biden’s Georgia victory. “I get that a special grand jury cannot bring charges but why does that mean it’s not a criminal investigative body?” McBurney said. “He’s just the king,” McBurney interjected. Kemp’s lawyers said he has been put in an uncomfortable position while trying to uphold the state constitution. The 23-member panel will recommend whether prosecutors should pursue criminal charges related to efforts to [overturn the 2020 presidential election](https://georgiarecorder.com/2022/06/03/raffensperger-testifies-before-grand-jury-in-trump-2020-election-probe/). Kemp’s attorneys argued before Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney that Kemp is protected under state law from forced compliance with a subpoena.

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Meadows called to testify about Trump's attempt to overturn election (Business Insider)

Ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows called to testify by Georgia district attorney investigating Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election · The Georgia ...

Hutchinson's revelations about that day came crashing down on Trumpworld during the two-hour hearing. [knew](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-weapons-january-6-crowd-dont-fucking-care-2022-6) his supporters were armed when they flooded the Ellipse to attend his "Stop the Steal" rally, and that Trump [said](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-defended-jan-6-rioters-chanting-hang-mike-pence-and-said-mike-deserves-it-ex-white-house-aide-testifies-2022-6) "Mike deserves it" when rioters chanted "hang Mike Pence." 6 committee hearings, where House members are investigating the Capitol riot at the US Capitol as Congress was certifying the election. [bombshell testimony](https://www.businessinsider.com/trumpworld-reaction-cassidy-hutchinson-january-6-testimony-2022-6) about Trump's behavior related to the attack during a House hearing. It comes amid the Jan. [ordered to testify](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fbi-affidavit-nara-documents-georgia-testimony-january-6-investigation-2022-8) about pushing"voter fraud" claims following the presidential election and regarding a January 2021 phone call with Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about finding "11,780 votes," per the court documents.

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Two Former Bulldogs 'Turning Heads' in the NFL (Sports Illustrated)

Former Georgia Bulldogs Zamir White and James Cooked have been tabbed as rookie running backs who are turning heads during the NFL preseason.

It's no secret that Georgia has made a name for itself in regard to producing top-of-the-line talent at running back. White, throughout his life, has had to overcome multiple ACL tears, and even at birth, his family was told by doctors that they weren't sure if he was going to survive. Both have gotten a good dosage of action during their preseason games, and it has been enough to put their names on notice for the upcoming NFL season. He just keeps doing it and keeps going it. And to see the adversity that he has continually overcome. He looks like an Alvin Kamara where it looks like I'm just jogging for a while.

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Mark Meadows ordered to testify before Georgia grand jury over ... (Washington Times)

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has been summoned to testify before a Georgia grand jury looking into former President Donald Trump's efforts ...

Willis is also seeking appearances from former [Trump](/topics/donald-trump/) attorney Sidney Powell and cyber researcher James Waldron. [Meadows](/topics/mark-meadows/) to appear for an interview on Sept. Powell are “necessary and material” to the probe. [Meadows](/topics/mark-meadows/) and Ms. 27, citing [his](/topics/mark-meadows/) constant communication with Mr. [Meadows](/topics/mark-meadows/), Ms.

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Georgia football continues to see greatness from NFL rookies (Dawn of the Dawg)

On Friday night, Zamir White was a force of nature for the Las Vegas Raiders and deserved a shout-out. Despite having two knee injuries in college, this young ...

It’s essential for the future of the program, plus Georgia fans love seeing their favorites continue to have success at the next level. Seeing things like this surrounding a Georgia football NFL rookie is what Smart loves. [two are killing it for their teams.](https://dawnofthedawg.com/2022/05/14/georgia-football-nfl-rookies-make-great-first-impressions/) The blender comment also made us chuckle because that spin move is special. The amount of Georgia love the NFL has shown really is a sight to see. [ Zamir White](https://www.raiders.com/video/zamir-white-follows-blockers-for-untouched-4-yard-td-nfl-preseason) was a force of nature for the Las Vegas Raiders and deserved a shout-out. Now he is on track to have significant playing time for the Raiders as a rookie.

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Fall Camp Position Battle Update: Who Starts Opposite of Ringo at ... (CalBearsMaven)

After losing two top-40 NFL Draft picks last offseason, Kirby Smart and co. went out and landed Derion Kendrick from the NCAA Transfer Portal.

Sources told SI Dawgs Daily back in the spring that sophomore Kamari Lassiter was the frontrunner to start opposite of Ringo. The former five-star recruit ended his season first season in a Georgia uniform in a way that many won't be able to replicate. Look no further than the ultra-talented 2022 recruiting class that featured six defensive backs, all of whom garnered four and five-star rankings. The Rock Hill, South Carolina, native started in all 15 games last season for the Bulldogs, effectively shutting down one side of the field as Georgia's top cornerback. Before transferring to Georgia, the former wide receiver turned cornerback made a name for himself as one of the top defensive backs in the ACC. This time, whoever fills the vacancy will play opposite Kelee Ringo.

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Ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows called to testify by ... (Yahoo News)

The Georgia district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election is demanding grand jury testimony from ...

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Fulton County DA looking into voting system breach in Trump ... (11Alive.com WXIA)

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to have attorney Sidney Powell, who tried persistently to overturn Trump's loss, testify.

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