‘DA Willis disqualified herself’: Trump opening brief says appeals court must remove ‘unethical’ Fulton County prosecutor from RICO case and dismiss indictment entirely

Donald Trump, on the left; Fani Willis, on the right

Left: Donald Trump speaks at the annual Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC, June 22, 2024 (Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP). Right: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis arrives during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Atlanta (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool).

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.

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