A spate of major court rulings rejecting claims of executive privilege
and other arguments by Donald Trump and his top allies are boosting investigations by the US justice department (DoJ) and a special Georgia
grand jury into whether the former US president broke laws as he sought
to overturn the 2020 election results.

Former prosecutors say the upshot of these court rulings is that key
Trump backers and ex-administration lawyers – such as ex-chief of staff
Mark Meadows and legal adviser John Eastman – can no longer stave off testifying before grand juries in DC and Georgia. They are wanted for questioning about their knowledge of – or active roles in – Trump’s crusade to stop Joe Biden from taking office by leveling false charges
of fraud.

Due to a number of court decisions, Meadows, Eastman, Senator Lindsey
Graham and others must testify before a special Georgia grand jury
working with the Fulton county district attorney focused on the intense
drive by Trump and top loyalists to pressure the Georgia secretary of
state and other officials to thwart Biden’s victory there.

Similarly, court rulings have meant that top Trump lawyers such as
former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who opposed Trump’s zealous
drive to overturn the 2020 election, had to testify without invoking
executive privilege before a DC grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts
to block Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory.

On another legal front, some high level courts have ruled adversely for
Trump regarding the hundreds of classified documents he took to his
Florida resort Mar-a-Lago when he left office, thus helping an inquiry
into whether he broke laws by holding onto papers that should have been
sent to the National Archives.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/29/donald-trump-legal-trouble-us-courts-favor-justice-department

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