The Jan. 6 committee's work is likely to have the most immediate impact in Georgia, where prosecutors are entering a consequential phase of their probe.

• Fulton County prosecutors are investigating interference in the 2020 election in Georgia.
• Prosecutors have been tracking findings unveiled in the House Jan. 6 committee's public hearings.
• DA Fani Willis indicated a decision on charges could come as early as the end of the year.

Across nine public hearings, the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attacks offered damning accounts of Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

From repeated attempts to pressure the Justice Department to amplify false claims of election fraud to summoning the mob that stormed the Capitol, the former president’s often-desperate attempts to cling to power are behind the most striking images to emerge from the extraordinary congressional investigation.

Perhaps no episode cut to the core of Trump’s alleged mission like the campaign to upend the election in Georgia where Trump, himself, pressed election officials in a recorded telephone call to “find” the votes to deny Joe Biden’s victory.

“The president had a particular obsession with Georgia,” House committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., declared earlier this year.

As lawmakers prepare their final report, the panel’s collective work is likely to have its most immediate impact in Georgia where state prosecutors are entering a consequential phase of a...

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