North Fulton Today

A grand jury has been selected in Fulton County, Ga., to decide if former President Donald Trump may have committed a crime by seeking to pressure state officials into overturning vote tallies in the 2020 election that ended his presidency.

According to Fox 5 Atlanta, 26 people, among them 23 grand jurors and three alternatives, were selected from a pool of around 200 candidates to hear testimony in the case.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said her office "has received information indicating a reasonable probability that the state of Georgia's administration of elections in 2020, including the state's election of the president of the United States was subject to possible criminal disruptions," Fox 5 Atlanta said.

Willis sent a request to Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher in January to form a special grand jury in order to investigate whether Trump sought to tamper with the 2020 general election in a phone call with Georgia election officials.

"Although it is not what we were expecting, it is not what I could have ever anticipated would be going on in my first six weeks in office, we're here," Willis said, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

Ultimately, officials in Georgia certified President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state by an 11,779-vote margin, with the vote undergoing three recounts including a mandatory hand count and a Trump-requested recount.

With public interest in the case sky-high and still rising, the court made arrangements to allow cameras in the courtroom for jury selection and as the case moves forward to other phases.