While former President Donald Trump scored a major victory by forcing the removal of special prosecutor Nathan Wade, his effort to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is unlikely to succeed.
After uncovering a romantic relationship between Willis and Wade, Trump’s lawyers have sought to have Willis’s case against the former president dismissed. The new strategy is unrelated to the Willis-Wade affair and instead uses a free speech argument. Similar arguments were used prior by co-defendants Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro — both of which failed.
Trump’s lawyers argue that his actions and rhetoric around the 2020 election were political speech and therefore protected by the First Amendment.
“The core political speech and expressive conduct alleged in this indictment against President Trump are protected from government regulation and thus criminal prosecution by the State,” Trump
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