Attorneys for former President Donald Trump asked a Georgia judge on Dec. 18 to toss the former president’s 2020 election criminal racketeering case because his comments were political speech protected under the Constitution’s First Amendment.
“Every single alleged overt act listed and count charged against President Trump seeks to criminalize content-based, core political speech and expressive conduct,” President Trump’s team wrote in court papers.
The former president and more than a dozen other people were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, by District Attorney Fani Willis, who accused them of conspiring to overturn the election in the state.
Several defendants in the case have pleaded guilty in exchange for more lenient punishment, although President Trump and the remaining defendants have pleaded not guilty and deny wrongdoing….
