
Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis, the Atlanta-area prosecutor who indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others late Monday for an alleged conspiracy to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in the state, is seeking a March 4, 2024, trial date, according to a proposed scheduling order filed with the court Wednesday. Willis' proposed date would have the trial beginning a day before Super Tuesday, "when the most delegates are at stake in the primary contest to decide the next Republican presidential nominee," The Associated Press reports.
The proposed date drew complaints of bias from conservative commentators in Trump's camp: