The Georgia prosecutor overseeing a 2020 election probe had offered immunity to some of the false pro-Trump electors implicated in her investigation — but says their lawyer didn’t relay the message.
DrThe developments revealed in a court filing Tuesday prompted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to ask a judge to disqualify the lawyer jointly representing most of the electors, Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow.
Willis wrote Debrow’s representation of the electors has created an “impracticable and ethical mess” and is “rife with serious ethical problems.”Some of those electors recently accused one another of crimes, per the filing, which reveals recent elector interviews with prosecutors. Willis argues Debrow’s ability to represent electors has been undermined and wants her disqualified.
The high-stakes probe in Georgia, one of several battleground states where pro-Trump groups organized “alternate elector” schemes after he lost the election, is one of several the former president is facing.
Lawyers on both sides of the investigation have sought to undercut each other in the last two years.
Last month Trump attorneys requested Willis herself be disqualified from the matter and challenged the constitutionality of the entire investigation. The DA is expected to file a response this month.Willis was last year separately disqualified from investigating one elector — Lt. Gov. Burt Jones — for a political conflict of interest.
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