Trump Georgia Case: Fani Willis Must Hand Over All Communications With Jack Smith, J6 Committee
Judicial Watch wants documents to investigate if Willis “coordinated with the House Jan. 6 Committee in their investigations.”
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney gave the county’s Attorney General Fani Willis five days to turn over all communication records with special counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee.
McBurney found Willis failed to comply with a request under the Open Records Act (ORA) filed by Judicial Watch.
The Court finds Defendant is in default and has been since 11 April 2024. As already mentioned, it is undisputed that Defendant was served on 11 March 2024 and that Plaintiff filed the return of service on 13 March 2024. While it is true that that return did not immediately appear on the Court’s electronic docket, this delay does not change the fact that Plaintiff filed it — and that it was stamped as received by the Clerk — on 13 March 2024. Because the return was filed within five days of service, Defendant was required to answer within thirty days of service, which would have been 10 April 2024. O.C.G.A. § 9-11 12(a). Nothing in the Court’s 15 April 2024 Order changes that analysis. In its Order, the Court, laboring under the mistaken impression that service had not yet been effected, simply directed Plaintiff to serve Defendant. But Plaintiff already had done so and provided proof of that fact (to include the return). There was no requirement for Plaintiff to re-serve Defendant and the Court’s Order cannot be read as such.
McBurney listed the many actions Willis could have taken to fight the ORA request.
“But Defendant did none of that: she never moved to open default on any basis (not even during the period when she could have opened default as a matter of right), she never paid costs, and she never offered up a meritorious defense,” wrote McBurney. “Plaintiff is thus entitled to judgment by default as if every item and paragraph of the complaint were supported by proper and sufficient evidence. O.C.G.A. § 9-11-55(a).”
Judicial Watch wants documents to investigate if Willis “coordinated with the House Jan. 6 Committee in their investigations.”
Willis has been trying to put President-elect Donald Trump behind bars for alleging trying to rig the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County.
Trump and 18 other defendants pleaded not guilty.
Trump’s charges include “one count of violation of the Georgia RICO Act, three counts of criminal solicitation, six counts of criminal conspiracy, one count of filing false documents and two counts of making false statements.”
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Fani Willis did not kill herself.
But she did commit career suicide and killed her own credibility.
I live just outside of Atlanta and unfortunately, you are wrong. She just got re-elected and as we have seen many many times, a mostly black community will re-elect a terrible person, even a criminal over and over again. Remember Marion Barry, mayor of DC? Convicted of many crimes but re-elected again. Senator Warnok is a good example of a bad history but being black, he won the election for senator.
You’re assuming she ever had any credibility
I don’t think there’s enough appreciation for how much heavy lifting Judicial Watch does and has done over the years. NONE of the most damaging information about Benghazi or Hilary Clinton’s private email server would have ever come to light absent Judicial Watch doggedly filing countless lawsuits. The Republicans in the House, including all-bark, no-bite Jim Jordan, didn’t uncover ANY of that information – or any of the Fanny Willis information – on their own. It’s all been Judicial Watch.
IOW, citizens holding the gov’t accountable. Good on them.
Agreed
Be sure to catch Attorney Robert Gouveia on Rumble, too.
First time in history a DA like Fanni just ignored a FOIA. She really doesn’t want people to find out who in the WH her and her boy toy met with on her Jihad against Trump. Who want’s to bet some people in the DOJ are busy with the shredders
This Fani has her ass in a sling.
That has to be one huge sling.
The one from Free Willy is still around.
If she gives up any proof of coordinating the prosecution with the White House, Congress or the Special Counsel in order to fabricate charges against Trump, a lot of people can be roped into a conspiracy to deprive Trump of his rights (as in the right to freedom), which is a violation of federal law. The same federal law that Smith charged Trump with violating. How sweet would that be.
Prediction: she will try to plead the Fifth to not hand over any documents.
I don’t believe she can plead the 5th on this. These are not her records, she is merely a custodian of office material theoretically kept in the normal course of business, and this includes cellphone records if the phone is paid for by her office.
She can Plead if she is in a court but the records are public records. She has no choice but to hand them over. She fought hard, though. First she said there weren’t any then stonewalled and finally just didn’t answer the court.
Nathan will turn state’s and Fani will disappear from the news.
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