The Trump Trials, Vol. 21: Does a New Georgia Statute Empower Georgia Republicans to End the RICO Case Against Donald Trump?

This Proof series—authored by a longtime criminal defense lawyer and leading Donald Trump biographer—unpacks recent events in the historic trials of the disgraced former president.

Introduction

In the State of Georgia, a new statute signed into law by the state’s Republican Party governor goes into effect in October 2023. The details of the statute are discussed in more detail here, but the upshot is that it allows an ostensibly nonpartisan but in fact political-appointee-filled, partisan “commission” (called the Prosecuting Attorn…