Georgia grand jury investigating Trump and 2020 election aftermath completes its work - CNN

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The Atlanta-area peculiar expansive assemblage investigating whether erstwhile President Donald Trump and his allies violated the instrumentality successful their efforts to overturn the 2020 predetermination has completed its work, according to a caller tribunal filing.

“Given the peculiar intent expansive jury’s transportation of its last report, the undersigned’s recommendation, and the Superior Court bench’s vote, it is the ORDER of this tribunal that the peculiar intent expansive assemblage present stands DISSOLVED,” Judge Robert McBurney, who has been overseeing the Fulton County peculiar expansive assemblage investigation, wrote successful Monday’s abbreviated tribunal order.

Special expansive juries successful Georgia are not authorized to contented indictments. But the sheet volition contented a last study that serves arsenic a mechanics for the peculiar expansive assemblage to urge whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should prosecute indictments successful her predetermination interference investigation. Willis tin past spell to a regularly empaneled expansive assemblage to question indictments.

Willis has already spent much than a twelvemonth digging into Trump and his associates, kicking disconnected her probe successful aboriginal 2021, soon aft a January telephone became nationalist successful which Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes indispensable for Trump to triumph the Peach State successful the statesmanlike election.

Over time, her probe has expanded beyond that telephone to see mendacious claims of predetermination fraud to authorities lawmakers, the fake elector scheme, efforts by unauthorized individuals to entree voting machines successful 1 Georgia region and threats and harassment against predetermination workers.

McBurney has scheduled a proceeding connected January 24 for the Fulton County District Attorney’s bureau and others to reason whether the peculiar expansive jury’s study should beryllium made public. McBurney said that the peculiar intent expansive assemblage recommended that it’s last study beryllium published.

The peculiar expansive assemblage – which included 23 jurors and 3 alternates – was seated successful May 2022 with the powerfulness to subpoena witnesses.

This communicative has been updated with further details.