Georgia Lawmakers Can Subpoena Fani Willis Over Trump Case
Willis faces allegations of wrongdoing while investigating and prosecuting Donald Trump and others for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election in Fulton County.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram ruled that Georgia state lawmakers can subpoena District Attorney Fani Willis over allegations of wrongdoing in the case against President-elect Donald Trump.
From Law & Crime:
In the order, Ingram reportedly highlighted that the Senate committee demanding the information from Willis had already told the prosecutor they were willing to seek a narrower scope of documents.
“Petitioner claims that the subpoenas are overbroad and seek privileged and/or confidential information,” Ingram wrote. “This may very well be true, but this Court needs more details on the basis for these objections from Petitioner before ruling on Respondents’ application for enforcement.”
The Associated Press reported that Ingram gave Willis “until Jan. 13 to submit arguments over whether the subpoenas seek legally shielded or confidential information.”
Ingram told Willis she “would issue a final order” after reading the arguments, including what the district attorney must answer regarding the subpoenas.
However, Willis’s office intends to ask the state Supreme Court to review Shukura’s decision.
I think you all know the fiasco around Trump’s case regarding Willis and former special prosecutor Nathan Wade after the defendants claimed conflict of interest since the two had a romantic relationship. The Georgia Senate wants answers, too:
The Republican-led Senate committee sent subpoenas to Willis in August seeking to compel her to testify during its September meeting and to produce scores of documents. The committee was formed earlier this year to examine allegations of “various forms of misconduct” by Willis, an elected Democrat, during her prosecution of Trump and others over their efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.
The resolution creating the committee focused in particular on Willis’ hiring of Wade to lead the prosecution against Trump and others. The resolution said the relationship amounted to a “clear conflict of interest and a fraud upon the taxpayers” of the county and state.
Barnes, Willis’ attorney, argued that the Senate committee did not have the power to subpoena her. He also argued that the subpoenas were overly broad and not related to a legitimate legislative need, saying the committee is seeking confidential and privileged information, as well as private and personal information.
In March, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Wade or Willis had to step down from the case. Wade resigned from the case.
Wade and Willis claimed the relationship ended between February and April 2023.
But did it end?
In September, Willis brought Wade with her to the scene of her daughter’s arrest.
Earlier this month, the Court of Appeals of Georgia disqualified Willis from Trump’s case due to her relationship with Wade.
“The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring,” wrote the court.
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Fani sounds vaccinated
I heard that Fani is very rich.. I wonder how that happened?
Ty Mary, great article on a disgusting person.
She’s rich because she doesn’t trust her money to banks, keeps all her money in a safe and uses cash for everything because it’s fungible.
Or because she uses cash because it’s not traceable.
Fat Fani Willis is getting her Fani tied in knots.
When there is no regime to cover you. You bet and lost.
Catch a cannon ball now, t’take me down the line
My bag is sinkin’ low and I do believe it’s time.
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she’s the only one.
Who sent me here with her cigars for everyone. 🙂
I’m going to enjoy watching the $#1+ hit the Fani.
and yet the people of Fulton County reelected her.
Look at the population. I mean pictures, not numbers. Then you’ll know why.
Hmm… Seems as though Miss Fani was absent the day they taught law in law school.
chickens coming home to roost …
couldn’t happen to a more deserving
person…
Willis’ attorney thinks that the subpoenae don’t represent “legitimate legislative business”? Like all state legislatures, the Georgia legislature does have oversight authority through its appropriations functions amongst others. She goes to the Georgia Supreme Court, she’ll get laughed out of the building and end up sputtering and yelling uncontrollably at the legislature. Rolling eyes will ensure—they had better stock up on eye drops.
Unlike all state legislatures, the Georgia legislature has the authority to remove a DA from office. And it’s considering doing just that to her. The subpoenas are to give it the information it needs to decide whether to fire her. That makes it all legitimate legislative business.
Rest assured, her testimony will be a mix of outright lies, misconceptions, warped opinions, and claims that she cannot answer questions based on ongoing litigation. Any truth to be discovered can only be dug up with an audit, a SERIOUS audit done by a national accounting firm, fully funded and with the authority to unseal any records in her office for the last seven years. That audit has to be backed up by a judge who will turn down any of her screeching complaints that certain records cannot be viewed by the auditors, and subsequent removal from official duties if she tries to fight it, with a court-appointed and more compliant prosecutor placed in her position until the audit is over. In all odds, the replacement will be assembling a case for bribery and misuse of office regarding her actions.
As has been said before, if she has been conducting business in an honest fashion, according to the rules, she has nothing to fear. She hasn’t.
I am still surprised she won re-election. The question I have is, how much of her election funding was converted to cash that she stashed at her home?
Why are you surprised? I’d have been surprised if she’d lost. It’s like expecting Alvin Bragg to be defeated in Manhattan. The voters in her county like her performance.
She’s refusing to account for missing state and federal grant money that didn’t go where it was intended
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