Fani Willis Asks Appeals Court to Reinstate 6 Charges Against Trump in Georgia Election Case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked a Georgia appeals court to reinstate six counts that were dismissed against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the election interference case earlier this year.

The charges were struck down by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee in March and involved accusations that Trump and the co-defendants requested state officials to violate their oaths of office.

The charges were part of a wider 41-count indictment against Trump and 18 others unveiled by Willis in 2023 accusing them of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

When dismissing the charges in March, McAfee said it was necessary in order to protect due process rights. The charges, he said, were too vague to stand separately.

As a result, McAfee said, the defendants did not have "enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently."

In Wednesday's filing with the Georgia appeals court, Willis pushed back on McAfee's ruling, arguing that the indictment "more than sufficiently placed Cross-Appellees on notice of the conduct at issue and allowed them to prepare an intelligent defense to the charges."

The indictment "included an abundance of context and factual allegations about the solicitations at issue, including when the requests were made, to whom the requests were made, and the manner in which the requests were made," Willis wrote. "When read as a whole, the indictment provided an extremely clear picture of the acts committed by Cross-Appellees."

Willis said the court "should reverse the trial court's order and reinstate counts 2, 5, 6, 28, 36, and 38 of the indictment."

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Willis has faced scrutiny over her involvement in the case against Trump and his co-defendants after it emerged that she had been in a romantic relationship with a former special prosecutor in the case, Nathan Wade.

The Epoch Times contacted an attorney for Trump for comment but didn't receive a reply by publication time.

Catherine Yang contributed to this report.