Opinion: Why Fani Willis might beat Jack Smith at holding Trump accountable
Georgia’s highest court has rejected former President Trump’s request to block a district attorney from prosecuting him for his actions in wake of the 2020 election.First, state charges could stick against Trump in a way that federal charges might not. If Trump is elected president again in 2024, he would have the capacity to have federal special counsel Jack Smith fired, and he could direct his hand-picked attorney general to shut down any still-pending federal prosecutions.
Second, Trump is not the only person who allegedly engaged in election subversion in 2020 and 2021, and the states are likely to be the most promising path for holding the others accountable too.The partial report includes concerns from the special grand jury in Georgia that witnesses had lied under oath.
In the U.S. Constitution, each state and Washington, D.C., are assigned a specific number of presidential electors, but the rules for choosing those electors are left primarily to the states. States legislatures, in turn, delegate most of the management of elections to counties or other smaller government units, further decentralizing control over elections.
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