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The Lawfare Podcast: What's up with the Fulton County Special Grand Jury

Jen Patja, Tyler McBrien, Tamar Hallerman

Monday, July 18, 2022, 12:00 PM

Published by The Lawfare Institute
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Earlier this month, the Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference into Georgia's 2020 elections subpoenaed members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Senator Lindsay Graham, among others.

To discuss these high profile subpoenas and some of the finer points of Georgia state criminal procedure, Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Tamar Hallerman, reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who is covering the Fulton County Trump probe, and who also formally served as the paper’s Washington correspondent covering the Trump administration. Tamar also hosts a weekly podcast on the special grand jury called Breakdown.

They discussed the scope of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's criminal probe, how a special grand jury operates in the state of Georgia, what this one has been up to, and what's next for the investigation.

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Jen Patja

Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.

Tyler McBrien

TylerMcBrien

Tyler McBrien is the managing editor of Lawfare. He previously worked as an editor with the Council on Foreign Relations and a Princeton in Africa Fellow with Equal Education in South Africa, and holds an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago.