Special grand jury approved in Georgia prosecutor's Trump election investigation

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' request for a special grand jury in her investigation of former President Donald Trump and efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results has been granted.

In a letter sent last week, Willis asked Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher for the special grand jury, saying her office has "received information indicating a reasonable probability that the state of Georgia's administration of elections in 2020, including the state's election of the president of the United States, was subject to possible criminal disruptions."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.