ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court shot down Donald Trump's attempt to derail the 2020 Fulton County election investigation in a unanimous dismissal Monday.
The justices wrote that Trump failed to prove the circumstances were extraordinary enough to warrant their interference when a lower court has yet to rule on his original requests.
The state supreme court also ruled that the former president's legal team didn't provide the "facts or law" necessary to mandate the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
"(Trump) is asking this Court to step in and itself decide the motions currently pending in the superior court," the order reads. "This is not the sort of relief that this Court affords, at least absent extraordinary circumstances that (Trump) has not shown are present here."
Trump's attorneys did not provide comment about the ruling before publication. The Fulton County District Attorney's Office declined to comment.
The ruling comes after Trump went to the State Supreme Court and the Fulton County Superior Court as he pushed to stop any proceedings "related to or flowing from" a special purpose grand jury's investigation into potential election interference.
The special grand jury ended its work in January 2023. Its findings were placed in a report that remains mostly secret.
Trump filed the initial motion to quash that report in March. In addition to seeking Willis' disqualification, the team also wanted a Fulton County Superior Court judge other Robert McBurney to rule on their motion. McBurney oversaw the special purpose grand jury.
The former president's legal team also argued that the Georgia law governing special purpose grand juries is vague and unconstitutional, unfairly impacting people of interest in the probe.
Trump's attorneys — Drew Findling, Jennifer Little, and Marissa Goldberg — wanted Willis and McBurney to comply with the "lawful duties of their office" and sought to "bar their further contortion of legal processes" which violates Trump's constitutional rights, according to the filings last week.
The Fulton County Superior Court has not ruled on the March motion or last week's filing from Trump's team.
The two Fulton County grand juries that could hear evidence in the election investigation were sworn in last week. The first grand jury began hearings Monday.
Willis has previously said that potential indictments will come before Sept. 1., but she's previously hinted that charging decisions will likely happen between July 31 and August 18.