This court order against Rudy Giuliani means he’s finally out of options in Donald Trump Georgia criminal probe

While the court system tends to take forever to process legal disputes over congressional subpoenas, the courts tend to move rather quickly when processing legal disputes over grand jury subpoenas. Donald Trump’s subpoenaed co-conspirators in the Georgia election plot are rapidly finding that out the hard way, as their attempts at stalling aren’t getting them very far.

Rudy Giuliani is having a rough go of it in particular, as he challenged the subpoena in New York court, but then didn’t bother to show up for the resulting hearing. Accordingly, a New York Supreme Court Justice has ordered Giuliani to testify in the Fulton County Georgia criminal probe within the original timeframe laid out by District Attorney Fani Willis.

This means that Giuliani has already nearly exhausted his legal remedies for trying to delay his testimony, and we still haven’t yet reached the District Attorney’s original deadline – meaning he hasn’t managed to delay his testimony by even so much as a day.

This leaves Rudy Giuliani with a finite number of options moving forward, all of which are varying degrees of bad for him: 1) Fail to testify and be held in contempt of court by a judge, which is the last place anyone wants to be. 2) Lie under oath and risk perjury charges. 3) Plead the fifth and invite the DA to indict him. 4) Testify against himself and Trump, and hope the DA lets him off in return for his cooperation. That last option would be Rudy’s smartest move, so it’s probably the one he’s least likely to choose.