South Fulton Today

A grand jury has been impaneled in Fulton County to determine if former President Donald Trump may have committed a crime by seeking to pressure state officials into overturning the vote tallies in the 2020 election that ended his presidency.

In total, 26 people — 23 grand jurors and three alternates — were selected from a pool of approximately 200 candidates to hear testimony in the case, a recent Fox 5 Atlanta news report said.

Public interest in the case is immense and continues to rise, so the court arranged to allow cameras in the courtroom for jury selection and other phases as the case moves forward.

In January 2022, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sent a request to Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher to form a special grand jury in order to investigate whether Trump sought to tamper with the 2020 general election in a phone call with Georgia election officials.

"Although it is not what we were expecting, it is not what I could have ever anticipated would be going on in my first six weeks in office, we're here," Willis told Fox 5.

Ultimately, officials in Georgia certified President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state by an 11,779-vote margin after performing three recounts, including a mandatory hand count and a Trump-requested recount.