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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Senate passed a bill that would allow President Donald Trump and more than a dozen people to seek compensation for legal bills stemming from an attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The bill passed unanimously by state legislators Thursday would enable compensation from counties for attorneys’ fees and other legal costs in criminal cases in which a prosecutor has been disqualified. Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted in Fulton County in August 2023. The accusations included asking Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to find enough votes for Trump to win the battleground...

In an angry letter addressed last week to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, disgraced Fulton County DA Fani Willis wailed about the congressional committee purportedly "bully[ing]" her by investigating the affairs of her office. She suggested that he should be celebrating Black History Month instead. "Rather than honor and uphold the oath you took, you have chosen to expend your time attempting to bully me, which is a complete waste of your time," Willis wrote, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by The New York Times. "Might I suggest that instead of attempting...

Here’s another big win for DEI hiring—Mark Brave, New Hampshire’s first black sheriff, just pled guilty to a laundry list of felonies. Shocking? No, not one bit. This is what happens when you focus on checking diversity boxes instead of hiring the best person for the job. Sadly, we see this happening everywhere these days. Brave’s fall from grace is nothing new. Sadly, it follows a very familiar pattern if you’ve been paying attention to the left’s DEI circus. Back in August 2023, Brave was arrested for stealing nearly $19,000 in county funds. This “stand-up guy” used taxpayer money to...

The Fulton County Board of Commissioners opted against allocating a substantial monetary increase for the county district attorney’s office when finalizing its 2025 fiscal year budget on Wednesday, perhaps bringing a monthslong standoff with DA Fani Willis into its next phase. The board allocated $39.3 million of its nearly $1 billion budget to the DA’s office, a figure that Willis has insisted will not allow her staff to properly carry out its duties. The adopted budget also fails to provide additional funding requested by other justice and safety partners, like the magistrate courts and the solicitor general. Capital B Atlanta...

An unjustified assault has happened on a state legislator for simply trying to perform his state constitutional duties. On Thursday, Georgia Republican State Senator Colton Moore, a huge Trump supporter, was attempting to enter the State of the State session in the House Chambers before suddenly getting roughly forced to the ground by an unknown male. There are reports that the person responsible is a staffer for Georgia Speaker of the House Jon Burns, though this has not been confirmed. Authorities do absolutely nothing to the individual who unjustly shoves Moore to the ground. WATCH: ... Following the initial incident,...

ATLANTA - A Georgia state senator has been taken into custody after he defied an order banning him from the House chambers during Gov. Brian Kemp's State of the State Address. What we know: Thursday, FOX 5 cameras were rolling as Moore tried to enter the chamber and was blocked by the doorkeeper of the house. "This is a joint session of the General Assembly. Your House rules do not apply," Moore told the man. "I'm going into the chamber." After struggling to get in, Moore was pushed to the ground. He was then surrounded by members of the Georgia...

Fani Willis busted for hiding records, owes Judicial Watch $21,578 in sanctions!

Tom Fitton @TomFitton FANI WILLIS CONFESSES! Heavy lifting @JudicialWatch and a state court forced Fani Willis to confirm documents exist about her collusion with the partisan Pelosi January 6 Committee to "get @realDonaldTrump ."

The Georgia Court of Appeals has officially disqualified Fulton County DA Fani Willis from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump and his remaining co-defendants in the crumbling 2020 election interference case. According to the 31-page decision handed down Thursday, the state's appeals court ruled that there was, in fact, a conflict of interest that arose when Willis hired special prosecutor Nathan Wade and proceeded to have an undisclosed affair with him during the prosecutorial process.

In the end, it was Fani Willis who was the last lawfare prosecutor standing (or is that “persecutor”?)…. In any event, the others all fell and as of press time for this article, Fani Willis is the last case still standing and the last prosecutor still working to drive things forward. But the decision may soon be taken out of her hands as multiple reports are breaking tonight that the Georgia Supreme Court will soon dismiss the case and put Fani out of business.

As the national tide turns in President-elect Donald Trump’s favor, Fulton County DA Fani Willis is the last woman standing in his way — but she isn’t likely to last long. Willis is prosecuting the only court case left against Trump before he returns to office in January, over alleged election interference in Georgia. Federal cases into the returning president’s involvement in the January 6, 2021 insurrection in Washington DC and his alleged hoarding of classified documents were both dropped after he won the presidential election. A lot has changed from one year ago when Willis, 53 — the first...

The Georgia Court of Appeals has abruptly cancelled oral argument in the #FaniWillis Trump RICO disqualification appeal. ... efforting to learn more as the the reason, but sources with direct knowledge of the appeal do not currently know the reason It *might* mean the court is prepared to rule on the basis of the briefs that have been filed If so, that likely means bad news for Willis ... It is literally a one-sentence order issued with no further reasoning or comment. ... I could be wrong but I don't think they would not have cancelled oral argument if they...

I guess you can't fix stupid. Why would anyone vote for a hack, who publicly had a married boyfriend and paid him from taxpayer money? Something's very wrong with that.

ATLANTA — A Fulton County judge ruled Monday afternoon an employee at the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office did not act in good faith. The employee testified that he would use what he called the “Merchant Rule,” a tactic he used to delay open records requested by criminal defense Ashleigh Merchant. Monday’s hearing stems from a lawsuit in which Merchant accuses the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office of violating the state’s Open Records Act. Merchant claims the District Attorney’s office refused to provide documents related to her client, Michael Roman, who is a defendant in the election interference case against...

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis planned her prosecution of former President Donald Trump before she took office, her ex-lover and former top prosecutor Nathan Wade revealed in a bombshell deposition before the House Judiciary Committee. Willis’s prosecution of Trump for election interference has hit numerous roadblocks inside and outside the courtroom. Trump, who pleaded not guilty, has argued her case is politically motivated lawfare. Wade’s deposition on October 15 before Chairman Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) committee revealed Willis planned her legal assault on Trump before she took office in January 2021. Wade, after struggling to remember the timeline, acknowledged Willis...

In Brief: The court dismissed claims against Fani Willis in her personal capacity but kept claims in her official role. The case accuses the DA's office of not fully complying with public records requests related to Trump’s case. Fulton County remains part of the case due to its role in managing the public records portal. The DA’s office claims the lawsuit aims to remove Willis from the Trump prosecution. FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - The Superior Court of Fulton County and Judge Rachel Krause has made a decision related to the complaint that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her...

The House Judiciary Committee has so far been unable to locate Nathan Wade in order to serve him a subpoena, a spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.The committee’s difficulty in serving a subpoena to Wade, whose testimony they are seeking as part of their probe into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is “extremely unusual,” spokesperson Russell Dye told the DCNF. After defendants tried to disqualify Willis from the case over her relationship with Wade, a judge ordered Wade in March to step down from his position on the election interference case against former President Donald Trump as a...

Former President Donald Trump is threatening to file suit against Special Counsel Jack Smith over the August 2022 FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith to lead an independent investigation into Trump's post-presidency handling of classified documents and his actions leading up to the January 6 attack U.S. Capitol attack in November 2022, three months after the former president's South Florida home was searched in relation to the documents case. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump and has frequently been accused of bias in his favor, dismissed the documents case last week while...

Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments in his bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the prosecution against him. The development is unusual in that appellate cases are typically decided by the court's review of written legal briefs. “We believe oral argument will assist the court by highlighting and clarifying the reasons why the case should be dismissed and Fulton County DA Willis should be disqualified for her misconduct,” Trump attorney Seve Sadow said, according to the Washington Examiner.

A former Atlanta city attorney who was sentenced to seven years in prison over a massive $15 million pandemic loan fraud donated to Trump prosecutor Fani Willis’s campaign after applying for the government handouts, records show. Shelitha Robertson, 62, used some of her ill-gotten windfall for lavish purchases — including a massive 10-carat diamond ring and a Rolls Royce, according to federal prosecutors. But, she also donated $1,000 to Willis’s Democratic primary election campaign around the time she got the massive payouts from the Paycheck Protection Program, Georgia campaign filings show. **SNIP** A judge ruled that the relationship did not...