Associated Press

August 17, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"We understand the First Amendment and the right to free speech, but harassing poll workers and harassing election officials, intimidating their families, it's just wearing down on people and causing good people to leave their jobs," said Tonya Wichman, a Republican who is the election director in Defiance County, Ohio. "It's been unsettling across the country."

By Julie Carr Smyth | The Associated Press

7 minute read

August 16, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in a proposed scheduling order filed with the court Wednesday that she wants the trial to start on March 4. That would have the trial starting a day before Super Tuesday, when the most delegates are at stake in the primary contest to decide the next Republican presidential nominee.

By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press

3 minute read

August 16, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Che Alexander's office said that led to the docketing of "what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet." Reuters found the docket and reported on it Monday afternoon, hours before the grand jury returned the indictment charging Trump and 18 allies over efforts to subvert the 2020 election results.

By Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press

6 minute read

August 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Cory Fleming is the second associate of Murdaugh sent to prison since investigators began scrutinizing every aspect of his life in June 2021 after his wife and son were shot to death at their South Carolina home.

By The Associated Press

3 minute read

August 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was one of 16 Republican electors who falsely claimed that Trump won Georgia. As a state senator, he also sought a special session of Georgia's Legislature aimed at overturning President Joe Biden's narrow win in the state. But Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was barred by a judge from indicting Jones.

By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press

5 minute read

August 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The sprawling, 98-page case unveiled late Monday night opens up fresh legal ground and exposes more than a dozen of Trump's allies to new jeopardy. But it also raises familiar legal issues of whether the First Amendment allows a politician to try to overturn an election.

By Nicholas Riccardi and Meg Kinnard |The Associated Press

6 minute read

August 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Those charged in Monday's indictment face a slew of charges, including racketeering, violating the oath of a public officer, forgery, false statements and other offenses. Prosecutors say they must all surrender to authorities by Aug. 25.

By Kate Brumback and Jonathan J. Cooper | The Associated Press

8 minute read

August 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The posting of the case before grand jurors voted on the indictment — and officials' failure to explain what happened — gave the former president an opening in court and on the campaign trial to try to paint Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' case as tainted and the criminal justice system as rigged against him.

By Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press

6 minute read

August 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential election result," Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said.

By Kate Brumback and Eric Tucker | The Associated Press

7 minute read

August 14, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is widely expected to use Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, law to charge former President Donald Trump and his associates for allegedly participating in a wide-ranging conspiracy to overturn the state's 2020 election results.

By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press

5 minute read