Major act of defiance against Trump in GOP-controlled state flagged by legal scholar

Despite growing increasingly unpopular among voters, President Donald Trump has maintained a firm grip on the Republican Party, though one legal scholar on Monday highlighted a rare and “truly heartening” instance of defiance that he characterized as a model for future GOP resistance.

That act of defiance was carried out by the Georgia Supreme Court, which last month unanimously voted to uphold the disbarment of a convicted Jan. 6 rioter, despite Trump having pardoned them.

“Georgia...