republicans just rolled out their first bill stemming from donald trump s mounting legal troubles. the legislation introduced by south carolina congressman russell frye, would afford current and former presidents and vice presidents the option to move their own criminal or civil cases from state court to federal court. fry is a member of both the oversight and judiciary committees. his bill comes on the heels of trump s historic indictment and as the ex president seeks to delay a sexual assault trial against him . so where could this bill actually go? how would that work? joining us now? cnn legal analyst elliot williams, who s also a former federal prosecutor , elliott, when we look at this , fry says that this bill was needed because in his words, presidents and vice presidents are the most visible politicians in the u. s government, and that makes them he believes a target for quote. rogue prosecutors. but he says the benefit here would be that if you could move
the fully counting district attorney on whether to charge anyone in donald trump s attempts to interfere with the 2020 election in georgia, there is a bill that s on his way to the republican governor of georgia that would give the state new power over local district attorneys. the atlanta journal-constitution reports that republicans pushing the bill see it as a way to, quote, sanction rogue prosecutors. they say it s ineffective without. one factor republican leaders clashed last year with progressive da s, with several announcing they had no intention of making arrests related to the states newly enacted six-week abortion ban. sherry boston with the district attorney of dekalb county, georgia. one of those he is refusing to prosecute abortion related cases, and she joins me now. i wonder if i could just explain from your standpoint what your understanding of what this law would actually do, if and when it signed into law. well, what this law would do
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he s going to at least put up somewhat of a fight publicly but it really is just delusional for pence to think he s going to regain any of that trump base. when you know we all saw the footage of hang mike pence being chanted by the most hard core of trump s insurrectionist supporters on january 6th. that s not coming back to mike pence. he didn t do what they wanted him to do. meantime, greg, you ve been reporting on georgia where the governor could be close to signing a bill that would allow the state to essentially punish and remove what they see as rogue prosecutors. a move some see as aiming directly at willis, who s investigating trump. what s the fight over this bill is looking like and is the governor going to sign it? i would be shocked if he doesn t. he has advocated for this bill and his allies are lining up behind this bill. his supporters say this has