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Former President Donald Trump is set to surrender to authorities in Georgia on Thursday afternoon, even as a stream of his closest allies report to face charges in the case that accuses them of a sweeping racketeering scheme to overturn the results of his 2020 presidential election loss in the state.
“I WILL PROUDLY BE ARRESTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON IN GEORGIA,” Trump posted to his social media site on Wednesday morning.
Trump’s booking will mark the second time this month that the twice-impeached former president was made to face charges related to efforts to overturn the results of a free and fair vote. He is expected to be arraigned in the coming weeks. In total, Trump is staring down 91 state and federal charges across four indictments – the other two related to his mishandling of classified documents and hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges thus far and strenuously maintained his innocence.
Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, appears to be counting on his surrender to create a media circus outside the Fulton County jail – as his arrests in New York, Florida and Washington, D.C., did – in an attempt to undercut any challengers who may have a breakout moment at the first GOP presidential debate Wednesday evening. Trump has said that he doesn’t plan to debate in the primary due to his record-setting lead in the polls.
But the atmosphere will likely be business as usual inside the jail, where Sheriff Pat Labat has maintained that Trump will be treated like anyone else accused of a crime by a grand jury. That likely means he will be fingerprinted and photographed – the latter of which was not required during his three previous arrests.
Earlier on Wednesday, four of his 18 co-defendants in the Georgia case surrendered, including Atlanta lawyer Ray Smith, Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro, former Georgia GOP chairman David Shafer and Cathy Lathom, the former GOP chairwoman for Coffee County and a member of the Georgia Republican Party's executive committee.
Conservative lawyer John Eastman and bail bondsman Scott Hall surrendered on Tuesday. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is expected to surrender Wednesday afternoon.
The 11 others have until Friday at noon to surrender or Willis will issue a warrant for their arrest.
One of the most high-profile co-defendants, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, petitioned to delay his surrender date until a federal judge rules as to whether the charges against him in the Georgia case can be moved to a federal court. That hearing is slated for Monday.
But Willis rejected that request, saying in response that she would grant no extensions.
“I gave 2 weeks for people to surrender themselves to the court,” she wrote. “Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction. The two weeks was a tremendous courtesy. At 12:30 pm on Friday I shall file warrants in the system.”
Ahead of his surrender, Trump painted himself as a martyr to supporters and repeated on social media and in campaign fundraising emails unfounded claims that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen” and rife with “fraud, irregularities and cheating.”
In reality, the former president lost in 2020 by some 11,779 votes in Georgia but has insisted that hundreds of thousands of votes in his favor had gone uncounted due to ballot stuffing, faulty voting software and voter fraud related to mail-in ballots, out-of-state voters and voters who are deceased. The state’s GOP establishment, including Gov. Brian Kemp, has long assured him that the count was fair and accurate.
。 BOISE, Idaho -- An Idaho law restricting which bathrooms transgender students can use in schools will go into effect while a court challenge plays out. Chief U.S. District Judge David Nye on Thursday denied a request by a plaintiff who is challenging the law to keep it from being enforced until the lawsuit is resolved, The Idaho Statesman reported. In August, Nye had placed the law on hold in August pending his decision.The law will go into effect 21 days after his ruling.It prohibits transgender students from using public school restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. It also allows other students to sue their school if they encounter a student using a bathroom that doesn’t align with their sex assigned at birth. Nye said the plaintiff failed to show their challenge would succeed. He noted the law is “substantially related to the government’s important interest in protecting the privacy and safety of students” while using a restroom or a changing room. Lambda Legal, which represents LGBTQ+ people in lawsuits, sued the state in July on behalf of an Idaho transgender student, arguing that the law known as Senate Bill 1100 unconstitutionally discriminates against students based on their gender identities.“Although it likely comes as little solace to Idaho’s transgender students who, as a result of the court’s decision today, may have to change their routines, or who, regrettably, may face other societal hardships, the court must stay within its lane,” Nye wrote. “Its duty is to interpret the law; it is not a policy-making body.” The judge also denied the state’s request to dismiss the case, saying state attorneys sought to dismiss all of the lawsuit's claims in a “perfunctory manner, with little explanation.”School districts in Idaho currently regulate which bathrooms transgender students may use. About a quarter of Idaho schools allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity, Nye said in a previous decision.Thursday's ruling puts transgender students directly in harm's way by stigmatizing them as outsiders in their own communities and depriving them of the basic ability to go about their school day like everyone else, Peter Renn, Lambda Legal senior counsel, said in a statement."The vast majority of courts ruling on similar discriminatory laws have struck them down, and the court’s decision here is an outlier that fails to respect the equal dignity of transgender students,” he said.Idaho Superintendent for Public Instruction Debbie Critchfield, members of the Idaho State Board of Education and members of the Boise School District’s board of trustees are defendants in the case. Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador in a statement called the ruling a significant win for his office.“Society has separated these intimate facilities for time immemorial, and it is particularly important that the safety and privacy interests of minor students are protected,” Labrador said.Republican Sen. Ben Adams, of Nampa, sponsored the measure, and the Idaho Family Policy Center, a religious lobbying group, helped write it. The group also pushed a new Idaho law criminalizing gender-affirming health care for minors.Many GOP-controlled states have passed similar anti-transgender laws.In August, a federal appeals court upheld a decision blocking Idaho’s 2020 first-in-the-nation ban on transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports. In that case, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the ban discriminates against all women, citing a provision in the law that allows for anyone to dispute the sex of a female student athlete in Idaho. That provision would require the athlete to verify their gender through medical procedures, including gynecological exams.。
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