Defendants in Georgia election fraud indictment continue attempts to dismiss charges
Defendants in election case seek to dismiss charges
Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro are making another attempt to get their charges dropped as their Fulton County court date gets closer.
Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro were indicted by a Fulton County grand jury in August along with Trump and 16 others, accused under the state’s anti-racketeering law of participating in a wide-ranging illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
A pool of 450 potential jurors has been instructed to show up on Oct. 20 to begin the process of seating a jury. But lawyers for the dependents want their indictments dismissed, arguing that their case should be thrown out on various grounds – including saying that the indictment of a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
“So the issue becomes if you are accused of being a second slate of electors, which is then being a false government official, and if you sign the votes, that’s false. If you submit the vote, that’s false. It makes compliance with state and federal law impossible, and that’s where conflict comes in,” Cheseboro’s lawyer Manny Arora told the judge last week.
Lawyers for Powell, Chesebro try to argue to throw out case
Lawyers for two of the defendants in the Fulton County election interference case want their case dismissed. Kenneth Chesebro and Sydney Powell the two are charged along with former President Trump and others for interfering in the 2020 Georgia election case. Chesebro and Powell are scheduled to go to trial later this month.
