Fani Willis asks court to stop state legislators from enforcing subpoenas for documents and testimony about Trump RICO

Source: Law & Crime

Jan 23rd, 2025, 6:43 pm


Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis recently asked a court in Georgia to put the kibosh on subpoenas issued by state legislators intent on quizzing the prosecutor about her and her office’s efforts to investigate and prosecute President Donald Trump. Peach State Sen. Bill Cowsert, a Republican who represents the college town of Athens, is the chair of the Senate Special Committee on Investigations. That committee has been looking into Willis for years.

Cowsert has been aiming to force Willis to talk on the record about her long-frustrated Trump crusade since last summer. The locus of the committee’s investigation into the election interference investigation is how, exactly, Willis spent public funds — and whether any earmarked funds were improperly diverted. The prosecutor was slated to appear and speak under oath at a public hearing in September 2024 — but ultimately she was a no-show.

Around the same time, Cowsert moved to enforce years-old subpoenas for documents and testimony. In turn, Willis and her office filed for a permanent injunction to stop the subpoenas from being enforced. In December, attorneys for the parties argued the general issues in the case as well as for and against the possibility of Willis being held in contempt. The judge overseeing the matter then ruled in the committee’s favor on the basic question of the subpoena power.

Now, the embattled DA says the subpoenas are moot and should be quashed or dismissed entirely. That is, the procedural posture is now different but the hoped-for result is the same: Willis wants the judge to render the subpoenas dead letter.

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Full headline: ‘Dismiss this case entirely’: Fani Willis asks court to stop state legislators from enforcing subpoenas for documents and testimony about Trump RICO prosecution

Looks like she is arguing that since there was an election of the state legislature this past November, the original Committee that initially sent the subpoenas during the previous legislative session, would have been dissolved and was reformed for the new legislative session, so the disputed subpoenas are moot, and they need to start over.