ATLANTA — When prosecutors filed a sweeping racketeering indictment against former President Donald Trump and others for efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, it didn't take long for Republicans to denounce the charges and demand action.
Within a few days, a push to have Georgia lawmakers call a special legislative session emerged from the pro-Trump right, seeking to strip funding from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office, open an impeachment inquiry and find other ways to reprimand Willis, a Democrat.
The efforts appear to be going nowhere, but they've amplified a divide within Georgia Republicans.
The push for a special session came from freshman state Sen. Colton Moore, hailing from northwest Georgia, who published a letter demanding his colleagues join him in seeking the session and quickly made the rounds in conservative media circles.
"I mean, this is disgusting," Moore said on The Charlie Kirk Show. "We have a district attorney using taxpayer money, using her government authority to persecute her political opponent to the tune of the death penalty."
To be clear, Willis is not seeking to execute Trump or anyone else for their efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election, but Moore and other Trump supporters have used some extreme rhetoric in their quest to punish the prosecutor.
In other interviews, Moore said his constituents would be "fighting in the streets" if action was not taken against the district attorney, hypothesizing a "civil...
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