Trump Makes Major Move in Crumbling Fani Willis Case

President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion requesting that the Georgia Court of Appeals “confirm its lack of jurisdiction” to continue hearing his appeal and then direct the trial court to “immediately dismiss” altogether the Fulton County election interference case against him brought by Democrat DA Fani Willis.

According to the five-page notice of jurisdictional issue filed Wednesday, Trump is arguing the case’s unconstitutionality, now that he is about to enter the White House again with the protection of presidential immunity.

“A sitting president is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal,” Trump’s defense counsel wrote.

Accordingly, the U.S. Constitution prohibits “plac[ing] into the hands of a single prosecutor and grand jury the practical power to interfere with the ability of a popularly elected President to carry out his constitutional functions,” as a 2000 memo out of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Office of Legal Counsel upheld. (Read more from “Trump Makes Major Move in Crumbling Fani Willis Case” HERE)