Former President Donald Trump’s arguments that his criminal charges should be dropped in Georgia and New York are set to take center stage in dual hearings on Thursday.
Trump will attend the hearing in Manhattan, according to his attorney Steven Sadow, but the one in Fulton County will take place concurrently, setting up a day full of high-stakes court activity for the former president.
Georgia
Judge Scott McAfee will listen as one of Trump’s co-defendants makes the case that the Fulton County prosecution has been tainted beyond repair by a conflict of interest and that, if nothing else, District Attorney Fani Willis’s office should be disqualified from the case.
Willis alleged last year that Trump and 18 others participated in a racketeering scheme by attempting to illegally overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
The district attorney had been eyeing a late
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