In his newest authorized maneuver, Donald J. Trump sought a court order on Friday that might throw out the work of an Atlanta particular grand jury and disqualify Fani T. Willis, the prosecutor main an investigation into election interference in Georgia.

A choice on indictments looms within the investigation, which has been in progress for greater than two years. Ms. Willis, the district lawyer of Fulton County, has signaled that the choice 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 fees.

Mr. Trump’s attorneys made their request in a submitting to Georgia’s Supreme Court. They need the courtroom to throw out the proof gathered by the particular grand jury.

Though the Georgia Supreme Court is predominantly Republican, the Trump authorized crew acknowledged in its submitting that its newest stratagem was an extended shot, conceding that it had recognized “no case in 40 years” the place the courtroom had intervened in the way in which it seeks. “Then again, never has there been a case like this one,” it added.

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

The Trump crew’s submitting raises a lot of authorized considerations, each about Georgia regulation referring to particular grand juries and about how a particular grand jury was used on this inquiry.

Mr. Trump’s native authorized crew contains the attorneys Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little. Their submitting takes with no consideration that their consumer will likely be charged, saying that Ms. Willis “now seeks an indictment, the basis for which would be evidence unlawfully obtained during the special purpose grand jury’s proceedings.”

The district lawyer’s workplace had no rapid touch upon the newest submitting.

Intervening in a possible prison case earlier than an indictment is even filed is difficult. Mr. Trump’s attorneys have already sought to scuttle the investigation with a motion, filed in March, to quash a lot of the collected proof and take Ms. Willis off the investigation. To their frustration, the Superior Court choose dealing with the case, Robert C.I. McBurney, has but to rule on the movement.

“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 on Friday to the State Supreme Court.

“Nothing about these processes have been normal or reasonable,” they wrote, including that “the all-but-unavoidable conclusion is that the anomalies” are “because Petitioner is President Donald J. Trump.”