John Hardy Isakson was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Georgia legislature and the United States House of Representatives.
David James Shafer is an American politician who is a former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. From 2002 to 2019,Shafer was a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate from Senate District 48,a suburban district located north of Atlanta that includes portions of Fulton County and Gwinnett County.
Karen Christine Handel is an American businesswoman and politician. A member of the Republican Party,Handel served as chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners from 2003 to 2006,as Secretary of State of Georgia from 2007 to 2010,and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019.
Lucian Lincoln Wood Jr. is an American former attorney who made claims about the existence of widespread election fraud during the 2020 US presidential election. He has faced legal sanctions for lawsuits made in furtherance of these claims in the state of Michigan. In July 2023,while facing investigation and possible disciplinary action by the State Bar of Georgia for violating the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct,Wood surrendered his law license and asked to retire rather than face disbarment.
Brian Porter Kemp is an American politician serving since January 2019 as the 83rd governor of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party,Kemp served as the 27th secretary of state of Georgia from 2010 to 2018,and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2007.
Dana James Boente ( Bent-Ë) is an American attorney who served as General Counsel of the FBI from January 2018 to 2020,United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from September 2013 to January 2018,and as the Acting United States Attorney General from January to February 2017. He also served as acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice. On October 27,2017,Boente announced he would resign from the Department of Justice after a successor is in place. On January 23,2018,Boente was named general counsel to the FBI by the director Christopher A. Wray,filling the vacancy after James Baker's reassignment to another part of the bureau.
Sally Quillian Yates is an American lawyer. From 2010 to 2015,she was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2015,she was appointed United States Deputy Attorney General by President Barack Obama. Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the departure of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on January 20,2017,Yates served as Acting Attorney General for 10 days.
Edward Jerome Tarver was an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. A Democrat,Tarver was once a Georgia State Senator. He was a candidate for the United States Senate in the 2020 special election in Georgia,receiving 0.5 percent of the vote in the jungle primary.
The 2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 3,2020,and on January 5,2021,to elect the Class II member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue in the runoff election. The general election was held concurrently with the 2020 presidential election,as well as with other elections to the Senate,elections to the U.S. House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Christopher Michael Carr is an American lawyer and politician. A Republican,he is the current Attorney General of Georgia. In 2016,Governor Nathan Deal appointed Carr as Attorney General to fill a vacancy created by the departure of former Attorney General Sam Olens. Carr was elected to a four-year term in Georgia's 2018 statewide elections. He won a second term in the 2022 Georgia Attorney General election.
Charles Edward "Charlie" Peeler is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia from 2017 to 2020. He returned to private practice on January 4,2021,joining Troutman Pepper.
Bobby Lee Christine is an American attorney and former judge who was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia from 2017 to 2021. He briefly also served as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in 2021. Christine was previously an Assistant District Attorney in Augusta,Georgia. He is a former magistrate judge in Columbia County,Georgia,and partner at the law firm of Christine and Evans LLC.
The 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia was held on November 3,2020,and on January 5,2021,to elect the Class III member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated appointed incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler. The first round of the election was held on November 3,2020;however,no candidate received a majority of the vote,so the top two candidates—Warnock and Loeffler—advanced to a runoff on January 5,2021,which Warnock won narrowly.
Richard Donoghue is an American attorney and prosecutor who served as the acting United States deputy attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021. Previously,he served as the principal associate deputy attorney general in 2020 and as United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. Donoghue was appointed interim U.S. Attorney by Jeff Sessions in January 2018.
On January 2,2021,during an hour-long conference call,then-U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to change the state's election results from the 2020 presidential election. Trump had been defeated by Joe Biden in the election,but refused to accept the outcome,and made a months-long effort to overturn the results. Prior to the call to Raffensperger,Trump and his campaign spoke repeatedly to state and local officials in at least three states in which he had lost,urging them to recount votes,throw out some ballots,or replace the Democratic slate of electors with a Republican slate. Trump's call with Raffensperger was reported by The Washington Post and other media outlets the day after it took place.
Fani Taifa Willis is an American attorney. She is the district attorney of Fulton County,Georgia,which contains most of Atlanta,serving since 2021. She is the first woman to hold the office. Willis investigated the 2020 presidential election in Georgia,which resulted in indictments against Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators on charges of racketeering and other crimes.
The 2022 Georgia Attorney General election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the Attorney General of Georgia. Incumbent Republican attorney general Christopher M. Carr was appointed to the office on November 1,2016,following the resignation of Sam Olens to become the president of Kennesaw State University. Carr ran for a second full term in office. Carr won re-election over state senator Jen Jordan by a margin of 5.3 points.
In February 2021,Fulton County,Georgia,district attorney Fani Willis launched a criminal investigation into alleged efforts by then-president Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the certified 2020 election victory of Democratic candidate Joe Biden and award the state's electoral college votes to Trump. A special grand jury recommended indictments in January 2023,followed by a grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 allies in August 2023. The charges include conspiracy,racketeering and other felonies.
The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump,et al. is a pending criminal case against Donald Trump,the 45th president of the United States,and 18 co-defendants. The prosecution alleges that Trump led a "criminal racketeering enterprise",in which he and all other defendants "knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome" of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Georgia. All defendants are charged with one count of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute,which has a penalty of five to twenty years in prison. The indictment comes in the context of Trump's broader effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election. As of February 2024,it is one of four ongoing criminal indictments against Trump.
Scott F. McAfee is an American judge serving on the Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia since 2023. He was the Georgia inspector general from 2021 to 2023. McAfee previously served as a senior assistant district attorney in Fulton County and an assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
