Prosecutors in Fulton County told eight Georgia Republicans that they will not be charged with crimes if they testified truthfully in a sprawling investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results.
with the stated purpose of preserving legal recourse while election challenges made their way through the courts. Among the questions both Willis and federal investigators have explored is whether the appointment of alternate electors and the creation of elector certificates broke the law.
In the latest volley, Debrow accused prosecutors of misrepresenting the facts — a reference to an April 18 motion from Willisfrom “any further participation” in the case, claiming the attorney did not tell her clients they had been offered potential immunity in the investigation. She added that Willis’s motion was “reckless, frivolous, offensive, and completely without merit” — and she asked court to impose sanctions on prosecutors in the form of payment of the cost of responding to the motion.Debrow also accused Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor in the case, of attempting to mislead at least three of her clients by asking “confusing” questions about when they had first been presented with offers of immunity.
“During these interviews, some of the electors stated that another elector represented by Ms. Debrow committed acts that are violations of Georgia law and that they were not party to these additional acts,” Willis’s filing said. In July, Debrow and Holly Pierson, her then-co counsel, asked a judge to quash those subpoenas, revealing their clients had been informed they were targets of the investigation after some electors, including Shafer, had already voluntarily spoken to prosecutors.
They insisted their clients were innocent of any crimes and pointed to the 1960 presidential election in Hawaii, when Democrats created an alternate slate of electors while the state conducted a recount. The recount flipped the outcome in the state from Richard M. Nixon to John F. Kennedy, and Congress ultimately accepted the Democratic electors’ votes, which could not have occurred had they not convened and voted in December.
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