William Brangham:
Potentially.
Fani Willis’ office is appealing to the Georgia Supreme Court to overthrow this so she could get back in the driver’s seat. Unclear if that’s going to happen. If she loses that, then there’s this Republican-led Council of Prosecutors in Georgia, and they will be the ones to decide, drop the case, continue the case, and then assign a new prosecutor to that. Unclear if that’s going to happen or not.
Hanging over all of this, though, is also this Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel policy, which says that no sitting president can be prosecuted. Now, Department of Justice, that’s usually thought of as covering just federal cases, not state and local, but the belief among many legal experts is, is that state and local prosecutors would have to honor this as well.
And so the other cases against Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani, other people involved in this case, could go forward, but there’s just nobody really believes that a judge in Georgia would allow a case to go against Donald Trump when he’s back in the White House. So…
