A Georgia judge has scheduled a hearing on Donald Trump‘s motion to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
The hearing is on the court calendar for Thursday, Aug. 10, at 10 a.m., just weeks before Willis’ charging decision is expected to be announced.
Trump filed his motion against Willis earlier this month, requesting to suppress the Special Purpose Grand Jury report that recommended the indictments.
“[Trump] now sits on a precipice,” the filings state, according to ABC News. “A regular Fulton County grand jury could return an indictment any day that will have been based on a report and predicate investigative process that were wholly without authority.”
The special purpose grand jury gathered for eight months and heard testimony from over 75 witnesses. However, they did not have the power to return indictments.
“Yet, at every turn, the Supervising Judge and the District Attorney have trampled the procedural safeguards for Petitioner’s and others’ rights,” the filing continued. “The whole process is now incurably infected. And nothing that follows could be legally sound or publicly respectable.”
Trump had also filed this motion against the Fulton County judge overseeing the DA’s case, resulting in all of the Superior Court judges in Fulton County being recused.
Senior Superior Court Judge Stephen Schuster, who was previously a judge in the nearby Cobb County, was assigned to preside over the case and ordered the hearing, the publication reports.
