Rudolph W. Giuliani turned himself in on Wednesday within the racketeering case towards former President Donald J. Trump and his allies, surrendering on the Atlanta jail the place the defendants are being booked.

Mr. Giuliani, whose bond was set at $150,000, arrived in Atlanta as one other defendant within the sprawling case, the lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, filed a movement in search of a speedy trial. Under that situation, which Georgia regulation permits, the trial for all 19 folks indicted within the case must begin no later than Nov. 3, months sooner than prosecutors had sought.

After his reserving, Mr. Giuliani, the previous mayor of New York, stepped out of an S.U.V. to handle a throng of reporters, calling the case “an attack on the American people.” He then made his solution to A 2nd Chance Bail Bonds, a enterprise close to the jail.

He and Mr. Trump face probably the most prices amongst these indicted within the case. Mr. Giuliani served as Mr. Trump’s private lawyer within the aftermath of the 2020 election and performed a number one position in advancing false claims that the election had been stolen from Mr. Trump.

Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner throughout Mr. Giuliani’s tenure as mayor, accompanied him to the jail in Atlanta. Mr. Kerik isn’t a defendant within the case. Also touring with Mr. Giuliani, who flew to Atlanta on a non-public aircraft, have been Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Mr. Giuliani, and John Esposito from the New York regulation agency Aidala, Bertuna and Kamins. Mr. Esposito is anticipated to take the lead in representing Mr. Giuliani, somebody aware of the association stated.

The former mayor’s attorneys met with the workplace of Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district lawyer who’s main the investigation, forward of his reserving.

Bond for one more defendant, Sidney Powell, a lawyer who superior false claims of vote fraud and suggested Mr. Trump to combat his election loss, was set on Wednesday at $100,000.

The bond for Mr. Trump, who plans to show himself in on Thursday, has been set at $200,000; it contains stipulations that he not intimidate witnesses or co-defendants, whether or not in social media posts or in any other case.

The case towards Mr. Giuliani is a hanging chapter within the latest annals of legal justice. A former federal prosecutor who made a reputation for himself with racketeering circumstances, he now faces a racketeering cost himself.

“This is a ridiculous application of the racketeering statute,” he stated final week after the indictment was issued.

Nearly half of the defendants within the case have already made the journey to the Fulton County jail to be fingerprinted and have mug pictures taken. They embody Mr. Chesebro and John Eastman, the 2 architects of the plan to make use of pretend electors to maintain Mr. Trump in energy after he misplaced the election to Joseph R. Biden Jr.

David Shafer, a former chairman of the Republican Party in Georgia, has additionally turned himself in, as has Scott Hall, a pro-Trump Atlanta bail bondsman who was concerned in an information breach at a rural Georgia elections workplace.

In a social media put up on Wednesday, Mr. Trump — who’s working for workplace once more, leads the Republican presidential main subject and is skipping his celebration’s first debate on Wednesday night time — sounded a defiant observe about his upcoming go to to the Atlanta jail, saying he would “proudly be arrested” Thursday afternoon.

Mr. Giuliani has struggled financially with mounting authorized bills, lots of them associated to his efforts to maintain Mr. Trump in workplace for one more time period after the 2020 defeat. After repeated entreaties from folks near Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Trump plans to host a $100,000-per-person fund-raiser subsequent month at his membership in Bedminster, N.J., to help the previous mayor, in keeping with a duplicate of the invitation.

While Mr. Trump’s conventional technique all through his many authorized entanglements has been to sluggish issues down, Mr. Chesebro’s submitting for a speedy trial was the most recent twist within the Atlanta case. Speedy trial calls for should not uncommon in Georgia. Ms. Willis’s workplace has been ready for the potential of a defendant requesting one, and it factored into her workplace’s choice to take its time in bringing an indictment after a two-and-a-half-year investigation.

“State law, if requested by a defendant, sets a firm time limit in which to have a fair trial,” Mr. Chesebro’s attorneys, Scott Grubman and Manny Arora, stated in an announcement. “Mr. Chesebro has given his official notice that he intends to avail himself of that right. Mr. Chesebro maintains his innocence and remains confident as the legal process continues.”

A speedy trial would apply to all 19 folks indicted within the case. But some defendants are in search of to maneuver their case to federal courtroom or have stated they’ll search to sever their case from the opposite defendants’, so the last word timing of a trial or trials stays up within the air.

The three defendants who’ve filed to remove their case to federal court are Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official; Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s former White House chief of workers; and Mr. Shafer.

Robert G. Rubin, a veteran Atlanta-area protection lawyer, stated defendants had a statutory proper in Georgia to a speedy trial.

“It’s not something that the judge gets to grant and not grant,” he stated. “If you file it in time, then you have that right. And it affects not only you but your co-defendants as well, because they’re under the same ticking clock once one defendant files it.”

Defense attorneys usually file speedy trial calls for if their shopper is ready in jail with out a bond. In different circumstances, it may be a tactical maneuver to pressure prosecutors to go to trial earlier than they’re prepared. But on this case, Mr. Chesebro is out on a $100,000 bond. And Ms. Willis has had greater than two-and-a-half years to arrange her case.

Mr. Rubin stated he revered the talents of Mr. Chesebro’s attorneys. “But I don’t know what the advantage is for Mr. Chesebro,” he stated.

Mr. Clark and Mr. Meadows additionally filed courtroom papers in search of to dam their arrest. On Wednesday, the federal decide dealing with the matter, Steve C. Jones, rejected their arguments and stated the case would proceed whereas he weighed the removing query.

Ms. Willis’s workplace, in its personal submitting, referred to as Mr. Meadows’s bid to take away the case to federal courtroom “meritless.”

Norman Eisen, a particular counsel to the House Judiciary Committee through the first impeachment of Mr. Trump in 2020, stated he doubted that the removing try would achieve success.

“Removal is only for official business and what they did was way outside the bounds of anything official,” he stated, including that Judge Jones had “already ordered a brisk briefing and hearing schedule. That’s an indicator that he’s going to bring things to a head, and quickly.”

Shane Goldmacher and Sean Keenan contributed reporting.