Georgia Officials Threaten Fani Willis
Update, September 3, 2023. A recently passed Georgia law is designed to kill prosecutions through an 8-member commission with the power of removing prosecutors they don’t like. The bill was not voted on by the people of Georgia, but was passed by the majority Republican House and Senate, and signed into law on May 5th of this year by Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
Correction; edit. Just after publishing I got an email from Garrison Douglas, Press Secretary for the Office of the Governor in Georgia. In it he politely corrects my quote in the first version of this article, where I mistakenly said that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said the newly-formed committee would “take action” against District Attorney Willis.
I consulted The Atlantic Journal Constitution article, and the quote was actually from Georgia Senator Clint Dixon: “Once the Prosecutorial Oversight Committee is appointed in October, we can have them investigate and take action against Fani Willis and her efforts that weaponize the justice system against political opponents,” the Buford Republican [Dixon] said in a social media post.” The article continues to say that [the legislation] “passed this year, mostly along party lines, at the urging of Kemp and Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, a Trump supporter whose candidacy last year was backed by the former president.”
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