Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis pursued charges against roughly half of the people recommended to her by a special grand jury tasked with investigating efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.
, who accused her of weaponizing the legal system for political gain. Meanwhile, critics of the former president were relying on her not to botch the case., operating in secrecy behind closed doors, didn’t have to contend with those pressures. They had no specific criminal law training and ultimately don’t have to prove the charges they recommended.
Kreis also noted that Graham might well have been successful in an argument that a case against him be moved to federal court, which is something“That would just be an overreach, no matter what,” he said. “There just wasn’t enough evidence of criminality and stuff that fell outside the scope of his responsibilities as a senator.”Instructions for special grand juries are very broad, so the panel had a lot of discretion in how it structured its report.
The vote totals for recommending charges against Graham, Perdue and Loeffler were not as convincing. Special grand jurors voted against indicting most of the fake electors.
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