Trump motion to dismiss Georgia case cites Biden DOJ's recent defense of presidential power

Former President Donald Trump on Monday told a Georgia court his efforts to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election there were “acts that lie at the heart” of a U.S. president’s “official responsibilities” in a last-minute bid to evade criminal prosecution. Attorneys for the 45th president asked the Superior Court of Fulton County to toss out the racketeering (RICO) case against him in a hodgepodge burst of various 11th-hour motions to dismiss. Monday marks the deadline for pretrial motions to be filed for many of the defendants in...