Trump asks Georgia Court of Appeals to dismiss RICO case
Donald Trump does a hand motion in the main image; Fani Willis looks confused inset on the right

Inset: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis observed a hearing on the Georgia election interference case in Atlanta on Friday, March 1, 2024. (Photo Credit: AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool).

Former President Donald Trump made remarks after casting his vote in the Florida primary election in Palm Beach, FL, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (Photo Credit: AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee).

Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to dismiss him from the paused-but-extant effort to kick Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis off the marquee racketeering (RICO) prosecution she initiated in Atlanta.

Far from giving up the gun in that battle, however, the knock-on effect hoped for with the dismissal of the appeal itself is the full-on dismissal of the underlying RICO indictment.

Filed under the procedural vehicle of an interlocutory appeal, the four-page notice of a jurisdictional issue cites a relevant precedent, asks the state’s second-highest court to “inquire into its own jurisdiction,” and to find that jurisdiction lacking.

“President Donald J. Trump hereby notifies this Court of a following jurisdictional issue,” the motion begins, “the unconstitutionality of his continued indictment and prosecution by the State of Georgia in the case giving rise to this appeal, now that he is President-Elect and will soon become the 47th President of the United States, and its direct impact on this Court’s jurisdiction.”

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