Trump Georgia co-defendant wins 3-month delay in case

A Georgia judge granted one of former President Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case a three-month delay in his proceedings Thursday.

“As a current member of the General Assembly, the Defendant is automatically entitled to a continuance and stay from ‘all aspects of the case,’” the latest filing in Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still’s (R) case read.

The filing deadline for pretrial motions in Still’s case have been extended to mid-April. 

“All other provisions, including initial reciprocal discovery obligations, remain in place,” the filing read. “Additional extensions will only be considered upon filing of a particularized motion containing a detailed, fact-based explanation of the need for the extension, including the amount of time needed.”

Still and two other “fake electors” charged in Georgia with the former president tried to move their charges to federal court but were blocked from doing so in September 2023. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones said in three different rulings that David Shafer, Cathy Latham and Still couldn’t claim that they had been acting as federal officials when they signed documents in December 2020 saying they were the Peach State’s electors.

“The Court finds that Shafer was not a federal officer when operating as a Republican-nominated presidential elector,” Jones wrote in Shafer’s case.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), who brought the case against Still, Trump and other co-defendants, was recently subpoenaed in a divorce case of a prosecutor involved in the matter. Another co-defendant, Mike Roman, accused Willis of engaging in an “improper” romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade earlier this week in a motion.

In the wake of Roman’s accusations, the former president went after Willis.

“You had a very big event yesterday as you saw in Georgia where the district attorney is totally compromised. The case has to be dropped,” Trump said. “They went after 18 or 20 people. … She was out of her mind. Now it turns out that case is totally compromised.”