More Bad News for Fani Willis as She’s Ordered To Testify Before Political Foes About Her Pursuit of Trump
The order that the district attorney of Fulton County, Fani Willis, is required to appear before lawmakers in Georgia is more bad news for the besieged prosecutor attempting to bring President Trump to book for allegedly trying to tamper with the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Ms. Willis has already been purged from the racketeering case she brought against Trump and 18 others for election interference. The Georgia court of appeals found that “this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.”
At issue was Ms. Willis’s secret romance with her handpicked special prosecutor, Nathan Wade. The judges also ruled that the rest of her office has “no authority to proceed” after her disqualification, which was justified by a “significant appearance of impropriety” generated by the affair. Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade deny that their romance predated his hiring, though a onetime roommate of Ms. Willis testified that it did.
Now a judge at Fulton County, Shukura Ingram, has ruled that Ms. Willis has until January 13 to contest the subpoenas for documents and testimony from a subcommittee of the Georgia state senate that was convened to investigate allegations of “various forms of misconduct” on the part of Ms. Willis. The district attorney can argue that those requests are overboard or otherwise touch on privileged documents.
Ms. Willis’s attorney in the case, the erstwhile governor of the Peach State, Roy Barnes, the last Democrat to serve in that role, issued a statement saying that “the ruling is wrong and we will appeal.” The district attorney has already filed to the Georgia supreme court her intent to appeal her disqualification. The resolution creating the subcommittee — passed by Georgia’s Republican-controlled state senate — accuses Ms. Willis of perpetuating a “clear conflict of interest and a fraud upon the taxpayers.”
Ms. Willis has already been purged from the racketeering case she brought against Trump and 18 others for election interference. The Georgia court of appeals found that “this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.”
At issue was Ms. Willis’s secret romance with her handpicked special prosecutor, Nathan Wade. The judges also ruled that the rest of her office has “no authority to proceed” after her disqualification, which was justified by a “significant appearance of impropriety” generated by the affair. Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade deny that their romance predated his hiring, though a onetime roommate of Ms. Willis testified that it did.
Now a judge at Fulton County, Shukura Ingram, has ruled that Ms. Willis has until January 13 to contest the subpoenas for documents and testimony from a subcommittee of the Georgia state senate that was convened to investigate allegations of “various forms of misconduct” on the part of Ms. Willis. The district attorney can argue that those requests are overboard or otherwise touch on privileged documents.
Ms. Willis’s attorney in the case, the erstwhile governor of the Peach State, Roy Barnes, the last Democrat to serve in that role, issued a statement saying that “the ruling is wrong and we will appeal.” The district attorney has already filed to the Georgia supreme court her intent to appeal her disqualification. The resolution creating the subcommittee — passed by Georgia’s Republican-controlled state senate — accuses Ms. Willis of perpetuating a “clear conflict of interest and a fraud upon the taxpayers.”
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