The sweeping 41-count indictment brought this week by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis is the second effort to hold former President Donald Trump to account for the assault upon American democracy that culminated in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Taking advantage of Georgia’s especially broad racketeering statute, or RICO, Willis is pursuing a very different prosecutorial approach than Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith: Don’t target Trump alone, but sweep in the whole grab bag of conspirators large and small.
