Two courts are limiting Georgia county prosecutor Fani Willis’s use of a special grand jury to interrogate Republicans about the 2020 election
In January 2022, Fulton County District Attorney sought authorization of a “special purpose grand jury” to investigate “any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections in this state.”
The grand jury began receiving evidence in June 2022 and has already issued subpoenas to several high profile Republicans including Lindsey Graham, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchell, and Kenneth Chesebro.
On Monday, however, a Fulton County judge held that “this District Attorney and her special prosecution team may no longer investigate Senator Jones” and may not subpoena him.
While the special grand jury has no power to indict, Willis branded Jones a "target"
She has the Republicans in her sights, and she is searching for a crime
The public process serves as a political gift to her fellow Democrats
Any public criminal investigation into Senator Jones plainly benefits candidate Bailey's campaign, of which the District Attorney is an open, avid, and official supporter
This investigation benefits the entire Democrat Party, as well as Willis's political future within her party
A federal district court in Georgia handed Willis another setback when the court ruled on Republican Rep. Jody Hice's motion to quash Willis's subpoena
- McBurney barred Willis and her special prosecution team from
investigating Jones because on June 14, 2022, “well after the grand jury
had begun receiving evidence from witnesses called and examined by the
District Attorney’s team of prosecutors, the District Attorney hosted
and headlined a fundraiser for [Charlie] Bailey.” At the time, Bailey
was in a run-off contest to be the Democrat nominee for lieutenant
governor to run against Jones in the November 2022 general election.
- She also was one of the faces of the Bailey fundraiser announcement: it
prominently featured the District Attorney’s name, photo, and title and
was widely shared on Bailey’s campaign’s social media outlets.” Thus
Willis had bestowed her office’s imprimatur upon Senator
Jones’s opponent,” the court explained, stressing that “since then, she
has publicly (in her pleadings) labeled Senator Jones a ‘target’ of the
grand jury’s investigation.” The court then concluded that this
“scenario creates a plain—and actual and untenable—conflict,” and
therefore Willis and her prosecution team must be disqualified from
investigating Jones.
- In January 2022, Fulton County District
Attorney Fani Willis sought authorization of a “special purpose grand
jury” to investigate “any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the
outcome of the 2020 elections in this state.” On May 2, 2022, the
special purpose grand jury was selected and sworn in, and then in June,
it began receiving evidence.
- Two courts are limiting Georgia
county prosecutor Fani Willis’s use of a special grand jury to
interrogate Republicans about the 2020 election, but the Fulton County
Democrat’s political witch hunt continues with subpoenas still
outstanding targeting Sen.
- Monday’s ruling by the federal court
in Hice’s case also suggests problems for Willis in her attempt to force
Graham to testify at all before the special grand jury because Willis
had limited her claimed interest in Graham’s testimony to two specific
conversations he allegedly had with Raffensperger.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/27/georgia-democrat-prosecutor-has-been-slapped-down-by-two-courts-now-but-its-not-enough/
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