News broke on Wednesday that prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia have launched a criminal probe into former President Donald Trump’sinfamous phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at University of California Irvine, writes on Twitter that the criminal case against Trump is “a no brainer legally,” and he points to a legal analysis he wrote for Slate earlier this year that makes the case for prosecuting the former president.
In that piece, Hasen zeroed in on Trump asking Raffensperger to “find” the roughly 12,000 votes that he would need to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in Georgia. Continue reading.