State law allows attorney to enter plea on former president’s behalf in election rigging case
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Last week,made a much-watched visit to the Fulton county jail in Atlanta to be formally arrested after his indictment in
. He was set to return to the city next week, when the defendants in the case will appear in a courtroom and plead to the charges brought against them by district attorneythat he is considering skipping the 6 September court date, as state law allows, and having his attorney enter his plea in writing. That would make Georgia the only one of the four criminal cases he’s facing where he does not enter his plea in person.
Willis’s case is still in its early stages, and Trump along with some of his 18 co-defendants have signaled they have no interest in seeing their proceedings resolved anytime soon. But Willis yesterday seized on a motion filed by indicted former Trump attorneyto have his trial start on 23 October to ask a judge to start the other defendants’ trials at the same time – unless they object. Expect plenty of them to do so, perhaps as soon as today.
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