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By the Numbers: Trump's Legal Odds Are Bleak

The lynchpin of the indictment is a charge under Georgia's RICO statute based on the allegation that Trump and other defendants "associated in fact" and "knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the [2020 presidential] election in favor of Trump."
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Election Workers Who Face Frequent Harassment See Accountability in the Latest Ga. Charges

"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."
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Georgia Prosecutor Seeks March Trial Date for Trump, 18 Others in Election Case

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.
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Meet the Fulton County Judge Assigned to Trump's Criminal Case

"He handled a very difficult situation that was getting a lot of press and a lot of viewers online," said plaintiff attorneys in a suit against pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood, another case on the judge's docket.
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Clerk Says 'Mishap' Caused Erroneous Release of List of Trump Charges

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.
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Another Trump Indictment Has Come, but What Can Georgia Add to Jan. 6?

The Fulton County district attorney looked at the same facts as the federal indictment, but under different laws and with the potential for new uninvestigated evidence.
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Trump's Georgia Indictment 'Straightforward,' but Sets Up a Challenging Trial, Litigators Say

"Indictments aren't evidence. Indictments are allegations, but I know Fani Willis well and I know Fani Willis doesn't put charges down on paper and ask the grand jury to hold them up unless she's got evidence for it," said one of the district attorney's former co-workers.
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5 Key Things to Know About the Fulton Trump Indictment

Here are five key points to understand about the precise nature of the charges and why racketeering is at the center of them.
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Special Prosecutor Will Examine Actions of Ga.'s Lieutenant Governor in Trump Election Meddling

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.
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How the Ga. Indictment Against Trump May Be the Biggest Yet and Other Case Takeaways

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.
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