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Judge says Georgia's GOP chairman had singular role in fake elector scheme [View all]
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3756692-judge-says-georgias-gop-chairman-had-singular-role-in-fake-elector-scheme/Judge says Georgia’s GOP chairman had singular role in fake elector scheme
BY BRAD DRESS - 11/30/22 4:55 PM ET
A Georgia judge on Wednesday singled out the chairman of the state’s Republican Party, saying he had a “substantively” different role than 10 other fake electors who supported former President Trump in the 2020 election.
Judge Robert McBurney in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, said in a court ruling that David Shafer was “not just another alternate elector” and that he must have separate counsel in an investigation probing efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 results.
Shafer’s “role in establishing and convening the slate of alternate electors, his communications with other key players in the District Attorney’s investigation, and his role in other postelection efforts to call into question the validity of the official vote count in Georgia” separate him from the other 10 alternate electors, the judge wrote.
The attorneys seeking to represent all 11 “alternate” electors are Holly Pierson and Kimberly Debrow.
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BY BRAD DRESS - 11/30/22 4:55 PM ET
A Georgia judge on Wednesday singled out the chairman of the state’s Republican Party, saying he had a “substantively” different role than 10 other fake electors who supported former President Trump in the 2020 election.
Judge Robert McBurney in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, said in a court ruling that David Shafer was “not just another alternate elector” and that he must have separate counsel in an investigation probing efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 results.
Shafer’s “role in establishing and convening the slate of alternate electors, his communications with other key players in the District Attorney’s investigation, and his role in other postelection efforts to call into question the validity of the official vote count in Georgia” separate him from the other 10 alternate electors, the judge wrote.
The attorneys seeking to represent all 11 “alternate” electors are Holly Pierson and Kimberly Debrow.
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