Scott Detrow speaks with NPR Justice Correspondent Carrie Johnson and WABE political reporter Sam Gringlas about the fallout surrounding Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis

A judge has thrown out six counts in the Georgia election interference case involving former President Donald Trump and 14 others.

In the 2022 midterm elections, Black voter turnout dropped dramatically. Ahead of the presidential election in 2024, organizers warn it could happen again and political parties should pay attention.

Republicans have rallied around the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley to call for stricter immigration rules and harsher penalties for undocumented migrants who commit crimes.

Why some Southern states are talking about expanding Medicaid to cover low-income residents. They've resisted the option for a decade. (Story first aired on Morning Edition oN February 21, 2024.(

More Southern states are talking about expanding Medicaid to cover low-income residents. They've resisted the option for a decade, but are now running into competition for healthy workers.

Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis began testifying on Thursday — as Donald Trump and other codefendants try to get her disqualified from the Georgia election interference case.

A date is set for former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial revolving around hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign. Meanwhile, the Georgia election interference case is caught up in an effort to disqualify the prosecutor.

A Georgia judge holds a hearing Thursday on the personal relationship between two prosecutors leading the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others.

A federal judge in Georgia upheld a revised congressional map that creates a new Black district, and protects the state's Republican seats in Congress.

A judge is ordering Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps after finding the current maps illegally discriminate against Black voters.

Attorney Jenna Ellis has entered a guilty plea in the Georgia election interference case. The former Trump lawyer is now the fourth co-defendant to plead guilty.

Onetime Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the sweeping Georgia election interference case.

Prosecutors want the identities of future jurors in the Georgia election interference case to be shielded. That's after the grand jurors that indicted Donald Trump had their information posted online.

In the Georgia election interference case, conflicting legal strategies of 19 co-defendants and the crowded calendar for Donald Trump's other court cases complicate the path to trial.

The residents of Fulton County, Ga., vote in a highly contested swing state. And soon, they may make up the jury pool in a criminal case against Trump, who's expected to be booked in the county jail.

Former President Donald Trump faces 13 felony counts in Georgia related to efforts to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election result.

The complicated relationship has been on full display this week after Trump was indicted in Georgia for seeking to overturn the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump faces his fourth indictment since April, this one in Georgia. We look at the sweeping racketeering case and what comes next.

A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, charged Donald Trump and 18 other defendants as part of a sweeping conspiracy to keep the former president in power following his 2020 election loss.