ATLANTA — In a ruling on Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected a long-shot try by former President Donald J. Trump’s authorized staff to scuttle an investigation into election interference weeks earlier than indictment choices are anticipated.

The pronouncement from the court docket was each unanimous and swift, coming simply three days after Mr. Trump’s attorneys submitted their submitting. They had sought a court order that might throw out the work of a particular grand jury in Atlanta and disqualify Fani T. Willis, the district legal professional of Fulton County, from the proceedings. She has been the prosecutor accountable for the investigation into whether or not Mr. Trump and his allies interfered within the 2020 election in Georgia.

Most of the court docket’s 9 justices have been initially appointed by Republican governors; so far, the case has performed out in Superior Court in Atlanta.

Mr. Trump’s attorneys had conceded of their submitting that they have been up in opposition to lengthy odds and had recognized “no case in 40 years” the place the court docket had intervened in the way in which they have been in search of. In their ruling, the justices stated the Trump staff had “not shown that this case presents one of those extremely rare circumstances in which this court’s original jurisdiction should be invoked, and therefore, the petition is dismissed.”

They additionally stated that Mr. Trump’s attorneys had not introduced “either the facts or the law necessary to mandate Willis’s disqualification.”

Mr. Trump’s attorneys had beforehand sought to scuttle the investigation with a motion, filed in March, to quash a lot of the proof that Ms. Willis’s staff had collected for the reason that investigation started in early 2021 and to take Ms. Willis off it. But the Superior Court decide dealing with the case, Robert C.I. McBurney, has but to rule.

“Stranded between the supervising judge’s protected passivity and the district attorney’s looming indictment, petitioner has no meaningful option other than to seek this court’s intervention,” the attorneys wrote of their submitting to the state’s excessive court docket on Friday.

The attorneys couldn’t be reached instantly on Monday; the district legal professional’s workplace had no speedy remark.

Ms. Willis has signaled that any indictments will come within the first half of August; she just lately requested judges in a downtown Atlanta courthouse to not schedule trials for a part of that point as she prepares to carry prices. The investigation has examined whether or not the previous president and his allies illegally interfered within the 2020 election in Georgia, the place Mr. Trump misplaced narrowly to Joe Biden.

The particular grand jury heard proof for roughly seven months and really useful indictments of greater than a dozen individuals; its forewoman strongly hinted in an interview with The New York Times in February that Mr. Trump was amongst them. To carry any prices, Ms. Willis should now search indictments from an everyday grand jury.