A GOP Georgia state senator demanded Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp call the legislature back immediately for an emergency session to review the Fulton County indictment of the multiply-indicted Donald Trump and the performance of District Attorney Fani Willis, Newsweek reports.
State Senator Colton Moore, citing a clause in the state constitution, said Kemp should convene the special session “an emergency exists in the in the affairs of the state, requiring a special session to be convened under [Article IV, Section II, Paragraph VII(b)], for all purposes, to include, without limitation, the review and response to the actions of Fani Willis.”
However, Kemp looked at the situation in another way, harkening back to 2020 when Georgia Republicans demanded a special session to rage over lies about a videotape from the ballot counting center in Fulton County. “Where have I heard ‘special session,’ ‘changing decades-old law,’ and ‘overturning constitutional precedent’ before? Oh, right, prior to Republicans losing two Senate runoffs in January of 2021,” Kemp senior advisor Cody Hall said Thursday.