We may never get an indictment from the grand jury convened by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to investigate efforts to interfere with the 2020 presidential election, but we’ve already seen plenty of fireworks out of Atlanta.
In mid-April, Willis moved to disqualify attorney Kimberly Debrow from representing any of the ten fake Trump electors whom she still counts as clients. Debrow, along with attorney Hollie Pierson, originally handled subpoenas for eleven of the MAGA loyalists who met in the basement of the Capitol and swore themselves in as “alternate” Trump electors on December 14, 2020. But last year, Judge Robert McBurney ruled that state Republican party chair David Shafer, was a more central figure in the fake electors scheme than Pierson and Debrow’s other clients.
“Given the information before the Court about his role in establishing and convening the slate of alternate electors, his communications with other key players in the District Attorney’s investigation, and his role in other post-election efforts to call into question the validity of the official vote count in Georgia, the Court finds that [David Shafer] is substantively differently situated from the other ten clients jointly represented by Pierson and Debrow,” the court wrote. “His signed waiver may be identical, but his situation is not.”
So as a compromise, Pierson took Shafer, while Debrow continued to represent the other ten electors. But now Willis says that some of those ten are...
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