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President Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday to dismiss the case against him from Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis.
The case indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants over challenges to the 2020 presidential election.
“A sitting president is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal,” Trump’s attorney Steve Sadow wrote in the motion.
“President Trump respectfully submits that upon reaching that decision, this Court should dismiss his appeal for lack of jurisdiction with directions to the trial court to immediately dismiss the indictment against President Trump,” he added.
A total of five of the 13 charges have already been dropped as of earlier this year. The New York Post reported last week that the Georgia Supreme Court is likely to dismiss the remaining charges against Trump.
“Although Willis appears adamant she will stay the course, she could potentially be kicked off the case by a body who are investigating it or usurped by the state Supreme Court, who are likely to step in and close it, according to sources,” The New York Post reported. “I would be shocked if it wasn’t (dismissed) but Fani has an ego bigger than the entire state so who knows.”
The news comes as a Georgia judge ordered Willis to hand over communications related to her case against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, RSBN previously reported.
The ruling includes all communications with special counsel Jack Smith and the House Jan. 6 committee, turning over the records to the watchdog organization Judicial Watch.
“Fani Willis is something else. We’ve been doing this work for 30 years, and this is the first time in our experience a government official has been found in default for not showing up in court to answer an open records lawsuit,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a press release.
“Judicial Watch looks forward to getting any documents from the Fani Willis operation about collusion with the Biden administration and Nancy Pelosi’s Congress on her unprecedented and compromised ‘get-Trump’ prosecution,” he added.