of an election, pressuring election officials to change election results, that, of course, is a crime. this state prosecutor s office in fulton county, georgia, opened that investigation under georgia state law, pressuring or intimidating election officials is a georgia state crime. it s a crime in, everych state the tacountry, and, of course, it s also a federal crime. but while u.s. attorney general merrick garland has made sort of vague patriotic statements about no one being above the law and t federal prosecutors following the evidence wherever it leads, so far there is no evidence that federal prosecutors are investigating that call or any other reported instances of pressure that the president personally put on georgia election officials about the conduct of their official duties.re so far the only known criminal investigation into his efforts to falsify the election results anywhere in the country, the aty only known criminal investigation is that georgia e state investigation,