Georgia Republicans are calling for an emergency legislative session to review the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump.

State Senator Colton Moore asked Governor Brian Kemp in a Thursday letter to call for a special session, urging him to bring Georgia legislators back to the state Capitol to investigate the Trump charges brought on by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Both Moore and Kemp are Republicans. Willis is a Democrat.

Citing the state constitution, Moore told Kemp that “an emergency exists in the in the affairs of the state, requiring a special session to be convened under [Article IV, Section II, Paragraph VII(b)], for all purposes, to include, without limitation, the review and response to the actions of Fani Willis.”

“As a Georgia State Senator, I am officially calling for an emergency session to review the actions of Fani Willis,” Moore said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, announcing his request. “America is under attack. I’m not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET political opponents.”

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    Georgia Republicans are calling for an emergency legislative session to review the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump.

    State Senator Colton Moore asked Governor Brian Kemp in a Thursday letter to call for a special session, urging him to bring Georgia legislators back to the state Capitol to investigate the Trump charges brought on by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

    “As a Georgia State Senator, I am officially calling for an emergency session to review the actions of Fani Willis,” Moore said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, announcing his request.

    Former federal prosecutor and former elected state attorney Michael McAuliffe told Newsweek that Moore’s attempts to convene a special session "reflect an ignorance of the justice system in order to justify using a political process to thwart an active criminal case.

    On Thursday, Moore circulated a petition calling on people to support a special session to investigate Willis to review her actions in the Trump probe and “determine if they warrant impeachment.”

    The day after the indictment in Fulton County was announced, Kemp disputed a post that the former president made to Truth Social.


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