>>22664540, >>22664639 'This court disagrees': Judge strongly rejects 'absurd' effort by Fani Willis to avoid subpoenasPN
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'This court disagrees': Judge strongly rejects 'absurd' effort by Fani Willis to avoid subpoenas for documents and testimony about Trump RICO prosecution
Story by Colin Kalmbacher •
A court in Georgiashot down a request by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to quash subpoenas issued by state legislatorsintent 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. Since the summer of 2024, Cowsert has beenintent on getting Willis to talk under oathabout her long-frustrated Trump crusade.
Willis has resisted those efforts at every turn.Now, a court has rejected the prosecutor’s latest argument by finding it would set an “absurd” precedent for investigations conducted by state legislators going forward. And, in a twofold blow, the judge cast doubt on efforts by Willis to limit the scope of the subpoenas.
The focus of the committee’s investigation is how Willis spent public funds on her failed racketeering (RICO) and election interference investigation into the 45th and 47th president — and whether any funds earmarked for other purposes were improperly diverted.
A subpoena was issued by the Georgia state Senate in August 2024; but appeared superfluous at first. The prosecutor was slated to appear and speak under oath at a public hearing held by the committee that September — but ultimately she was a no-show.
Around the same time, Cowsert moved to enforce years-old subpoenas against Willis for documents and testimony — as well as the latest subpoena.In turn, Willis and her office filed for a permanent injunction to stop the subpoenas from being enforced.
In early December 2024, 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. On Dec. 23, 2024, the Fulton CountyDistrict Court judgeoverseeing the matter thenruled in the committee’s favor on the basic question of the subpoena power—denying the district attorney’s petition for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief.
In January, the embattled district attorney filed a new motion relying on a wholly separate argument. Willis argued the 2024 subpoenas were moot and should be quashed or dismissed entirely because the November 2024 general election necessarily resulted in a brand new General Assembly being sworn in.
The state senators, for their part, quickly made sure to reauthorize Cowsert’s committee. But, Willis essayed, the details of how that reauthorization occurred precluded the subpoenas from having any real staying power because, technically, the present committee is a different committee than the one that issued the original subpoenas.
In a 2-page order, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura L. Ingram rejected that argument out of hand, noting, “this Court disagrees.”
The judge said she was sympathetic to Willis’ arguments that the original subpoenas were issued near the end of the last legislative term — and that compliance is perhaps better achieved if subpoenas are issued by legislators early on.Still, the judge cautioned, “there are myriad ways to tie these disputes up in court.”
“If, every time a subpoena is issued by a Special Committee, a recipient can simply litigate its validity and enforcement until the General Assembly reconstitutes and then they have to start over, this would be an absurd result indeed,” the judge opined. “Not least because this would mean that if the need for a subpoena did not arise well towards the beginning of a term, the General Assembly would be forced to defer issuing said subpoena until the beginning of the next term in order to maximize their window of opportunity to enforce it. This could and would result in lost evidence, fading memories, and general inefficiency.”
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