Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during an interview at her office, Feb. 24, 2021, in Atlanta. The prosecutor who's investigating whether Donald Trump and others broke the law by trying to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election victory is asking the FBI for security help after the former president railed against prosecutors investigating him.

Judge gives Fulton County DA Fani Willis an extra two weeks to respond to Donald Trump's motion to essentially shut down any prosecution of post-2020 election interference after a fake elector joined the motion last week.

Credit: AP Photo/John Bazemore, File

The panel:

Amy Steigerwalt, professor of political science, @DrSteigerwalt, Georgia State University

Jim Galloway, former political columnist, @JimJournalist, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Tamar Hallerman, senior reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Tammy Greer, professor of political science, @TamarHallerman, Clark Atlanta University

 

The breakdown:

1.  Fani Willis gets extension on response to Trump's lawyers. 

  • Judge gives Fulton County DA Fani Willis an extra two weeks to respond to former President Donald Trump's motion to essentially shut down any prosecution of post-2020 election interference.
  • Cathy Latham, fake elector and former leader of the Coffee County GOP, joined the motion last week.
    • The combined response is due May 15.

2. A new poll from a GOP firm shows Trump is by far the favored candidate to win the GOP primary in Georgia.

  • The same poll shows that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who hasn't announced his bid yet, performs better than Trump in a general election match up with Biden.
  • But the poll is early on in the election cycle and only weighs 500 voters.

 

3. Georgia K-12 panel could soon erase "woke" words like "diverse" from training rules.

  • The Georgia Professional Standards Commission could rid programs of words like "diversity," "equity" and "inclusion" and replace them with words like "difference," "fairness" and "opportunity."
  • The changes would apply to positions including elementary school teachers,and roles of principals and superintendents.

LISTEN: Tammy Greer talks about the history of "wokeness."

4. Atlanta lawmakers request DOJ investigation into shooting death of training center protester.

  • GPB talked to an expert about why the two different autopsies of the Atlanta protester killed by police could both be valid.

LISTEN: Tamar Hallerman talks about the request to have the DOJ investigate Manuel Teran's death.

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Bill Nigut chats with experts from Georgia Tech about AI and ChatGPT.

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