Posted on 02/14/2026 11:38:48 PM PST by Libloather
Fani Willis is asking a Fulton County judge to dismiss nearly $17 million in attorney fee claims filed by defendants in the dismissed 2023 election interference case, arguing that the law they are relying on is unconstitutional, vague, and being misapplied.
In a brief filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, Willis moved to intervene in proceedings tied to a 2025 state law that allows defendants to seek reimbursement of legal fees if a prosecutor is disqualified for "improper conduct" and the case is later dismissed.
DA: Disqualification was based on "appearance," not misconduct
Willis argues the defendants are not eligible for reimbursement because her disqualification stemmed from the "appearance of impropriety," not a finding of actual improper conduct.
Under a strict reading of the statute, she contends, the law applies only when a prosecutor is removed for proven misconduct, not for the mere appearance of it.
Her filing cites years of Georgia appellate precedent that distinguishes between "actual impropriety" and the "appearance of impropriety," arguing that the legislature was aware of this distinction when it passed the law in May 2025.
No link between disqualification and dismissal, filing says The brief also argues there was no causal connection between her disqualification and the later dismissal of the indictment.
According to the filing, the successor prosecutor's decision to seek a nolle prosequi - a prosecutor or plaintiff's official notice voluntarily withdrawing a pending criminal charge or civil lawsuit - did not rely on the issues that led to her removal. Willis contends the statute requires a nexus between the disqualification and the dismissal - not merely that one event happened after the other.
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She’s a glutton for sure. You’ve got that right!
“....Willis is the poster girl for appearance of impropriety....”
Willis is the poster girl for their holy and sacred ghettopotomai....
Fixed it.
FTR, I loathe Big Fanny Willis. That said, attorneys routinely puff up their legal fees. I remember a case I was part of that involved a million dollar CD. It (the case) went on for 15 years. Post trial, the “other sides” attorneys testified to 2.3 million dollars. It got cut in half. I expect the same in Big Fanny’s case. Then, the attorney’s that are owed the money will have a “judgment” and the only entity deep enough to pay that amount is Fulton County. And, that’s as it should be as they are the folks that elected Big Fanny.
I seem to recall,l that there is an old testament curse that goes something like “ your people will be ruled by women”
Maybe on to something.
For every Margret Thatcher there seems to be hundreds of Fanis,
“.......“with a swipe of my pen”. Scary bunch those lib women when they have power.’
Liberals in general, Obama - I have a pen and a phone
Although it is irrelevant, I notice that she is simply a glutton.
Fat ass Fani needs to be in prison but they let her and the other piglet, Latitia James, slide just because they are “black” with very low I.Q.s, corrupt primates carrying very shiny Wakanda Queen Race Cards. They both should be in prison.
It was either Norm Eisen, Eric Holder or Marc Elias. Those are the dims big 3 lawyers.
Always in over her head, from the very start.
Can we allow black run cities to secede?
“dismiss the charges but their life would forever be changed.”
I can remember this commonly said my entire 82 years. It was very commonly said by both sides in the Joe McCarthy era.
Typical DEI Boss Girl stuff.
They get away with it so often, they believe it's reality.
I watched her explain to a judge in January 2021 why taxpayers couldn't view taxpayer records that taxpayers paid for.
40 minutes of pure BS - and the Democrap judge bought it.
Of course, it's all unraveled, years later.
Don't give the bastards the opportunity to work you over. Check your anger and frustrations at the door. Be invisible, a popcorn fart in the wind.
Once you're on someone's radar, they only use that to promote themselves. Stay off the radar.
I reckon there are than a few who would see her going to jail as the best offer they’ve had in a long tme.
1 Timothy 6:10
King James Version
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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