Posted on 12/03/2024 6:48:44 PM PST by bitt
A court in Georgia this week found Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in violation of Peach State law open records laws yet again.
This time, the violation occurred within the context of a lawsuit aimed at prying away information about the Democratic Party prosecutor’s communications with special counsel Jack Smith and members of the since-defunct House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
In a 6-page order granting the plaintiff’s motion for default judgment, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the district attorney’s office to provide the requested documents and left open the possibility of forcing the state to pay attorneys fees.
In the underlying lawsuit, conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch accused Willis, and Fulton County broadly, of making “likely false” representations about the retention of such documents.
“Fani Willis and Fulton County seem to have provided false information about having no records of communications with Jack Smith and the Pelosi January 6 committee,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a March press release announcing the lawsuit.
On Aug. 22, 2023, the watchdog group filed an open records request for all “documents and communication sent to, received from, or relating to” Smith, any employees in his office, and the House committee investigating the pro-Donald Trump riots.
After the request was acknowledged, Fulton County sent a reply stating they “do not have the responsive records,” the lawsuit says.
On March 5, the accountability group filed the lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court, alleging later-in-time information shows such records, at least to a limited extent, are in the government’s possession. Later, Fulton County was removed from the lawsuit while Willis remained.
But since then, very little has occurred — at least in terms of what Willis, her office, or her underlings have done in the case.
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“Willis, 53, is prosecuting the only court case left against Trump before he returns to office January. The case involved Trump’s alleged 2020 election interference in Georgia.”
The judge is giving respect to these “officials.” They in turn, are giving him the middle finger.
Time for this Ghettopotamus to go to jail.
Reality. You should check it out sometime.
harshly chastised, wow thats gonna hurt!
Fulton county is a corrupt shxthole in Georgia.,.. it’s the definition of liberalism.
Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello
🚨BREAKING🚨
Fani Willis is refusing to comply with a court order.
She’s refusing to handover any non-public records of communications she had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee, according to
@JudicialWatch
.
Willis’ Open Records Department denied any records about Jack Smith existed and cited a series of legal exemptions to justify the withholding of communications with January 6 Committee.
The only record she did handover was already public and it was a letter to January 6 Committee Chairman Benny Thompson.
Now what? Will the Judge allow Fani Willis to get away with such a brazen violation of the Court’s order?
In a just world she would be sanctioned and immediately removed from the case and the case would be thrown out. In this case, who the heck knows.
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