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DOJ Ordered to Turn Over Fani Willis Files
Townhall ^ | 2/9/25 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 02/09/2025 6:44:02 AM PST by CFW

In another legal victory for Judicial Watch, a federal court has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to furnish all available files they have on any communications between now-former Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis pertaining to the prosecution of President Donald Trump.

The court order comes after the DOJ still objected to handing over information even after the Trump prosecutions were shut down.

Judge Dabney L. Friedrich ruled on January 28 that because the two federal cases against Trump were closed, the DOJ's non-disclosure arguments are no longer applicable:

Since [the] DOJ filed its motion for summary judgment and supporting Declaration in March 2024, the Special Counsel's criminal enforcement actions have been terminated [...] The cases are 'closed—not pending or contemplated—and therefore are not proceedings with which disclosure may interfere' [...] Thus, the agency’s sole justification for invoking the Glomar doctrine under Exemption 7(A) is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, the Court will deny DOJ’s motion for summary judgment and grant the plaintiff's cross motion. DOJ is directed to process the plaintiff's FOIA request and either 'disclose any [responsive] records or establish both that their contents are exempt from disclosure and that such exemption has not also been waived.'

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: corruption; doj; faniwillis; fultoncounty; georgia; misconduct
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So Fani Willis is back in the news and things are not looking good for her. Especially since the DOJ is no longer under the control of Merrick Garland.

I guess her repeated phone calls (I'm assuming here) to Joe Biden's WH didn't result in a pardon.

1 posted on 02/09/2025 6:44:02 AM PST by CFW
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Fani's maybe not quite as totally stupid as I, for one, thought.

She was at least going for the big bucks.

2 posted on 02/09/2025 6:46:28 AM PST by OKSooner ("I'd be safe and warm, if I was in LA... " Mama Cass Elliott, 1966)
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Hopefully the release of this information will form the basis of a successful prosecution of Fanny. She had better get used to wearing an orange jumpsuit.


3 posted on 02/09/2025 6:49:59 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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That should humble Fatty Fanny.


4 posted on 02/09/2025 6:50:52 AM PST by AmericanMermaid
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To: Dan in Wichita

She’ll wear her jumpsuit backwards


5 posted on 02/09/2025 6:53:20 AM PST by digger48
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I’m confused. Who in the DOJ is fighting this? I thought Trump had his people running DOJ now? It was Merrick Garland’s DOJ fighting this as I understand it.

As Vince Lombardi said....What the hell’s going on out there?


6 posted on 02/09/2025 6:56:40 AM PST by vespa300
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Not the DOJ. Judges.


7 posted on 02/09/2025 7:01:22 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: vespa300

It was the prior DOJ that was fighting the release of these files, not the current one.


8 posted on 02/09/2025 7:02:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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I assume the DOJ is not fighting against the release anymore. The article doesn’t say, but they may have agreed to a Consent Order for the documents to be released.

Also from the article:

“Now, the DOJ must meet with Judicial Watch on or before February 21, 2025, as well as report the status of their discussion to the court.”

That meeting may be for settlement discussions given the change in DOJ leadership. I doubt the DOJ will continue to fight the case. Willis may very well be left twisting in the wind all on her own. As we say in the south, she hitched her horse to the wrong wagon.

I guess we will hear more after the 21st.


9 posted on 02/09/2025 7:05:03 AM PST by CFW
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Fani is a train. She said so.


10 posted on 02/09/2025 7:05:54 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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YESSS! I’ve been waiting for this shoe to drop.


11 posted on 02/09/2025 7:09:49 AM PST by know.your.why (<>)
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New head, new day


12 posted on 02/09/2025 7:11:07 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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Yep. Pam Bondi will deliver the files personally. And with a smile.


13 posted on 02/09/2025 7:12:21 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Maybe Fani can get a job with FEMA...she would blend in with the other porkynauts.


14 posted on 02/09/2025 7:15:27 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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Now we get to see how involved the Biden Administration was in going after Trump.


15 posted on 02/09/2025 7:33:41 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Dan in Wichita

an Orange parachute will need to be used.


16 posted on 02/09/2025 7:34:15 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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How will Short Fat Fanny look in orange?


17 posted on 02/09/2025 7:35:15 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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It’s about time! Now go after the REST of the dug-in dirty ticks in Fulton County- Dickens, Warnock, Assoff, Labatt...

And when you are done there- go get the slimy Gwinnett cast-offs.

And Maricopa thought IT took the prize....


18 posted on 02/09/2025 7:43:41 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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“Pam Bondi will deliver the files personally. And with a smile.”

***********

And soon to be followed by her delivering the Epstein files we hope.


19 posted on 02/09/2025 8:30:39 AM PST by Starboard
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It’s good to see that law enforcement is still hot on the trail of Big Fani. She was out of her league to begin with. She should have been working as a waitress or cook at a Chicken Waffle Warehouse.


20 posted on 02/09/2025 8:34:47 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't forget to celebrate "A Day Without Guac and Panther Pee" today! )
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