The Georgia State Senate has approved a special committee investigation that would look into the allegations of an inappropriate affair with Nathan Wade, her lead prosecutor.
The special committee investigation will have full subpoena powers and the ability to question Fani Willis under oath.
It is unclear whether the special committee will investigate further allegations.
Some have pointed out the possibility of Fani Willis abusing power by coordinating lawsuits against President Trump with the Biden Administration.
BREAKING REPORT:
Georgia State Senate just voted to CREATE A SPECIAL COMMITTEE to investigate Fani Willis..
It will be comprised of 3 Dems. 6 Republicans and will have FULL SUBPOENA POWER with the ability to DEMAND testimony under oath.
Votes were 30-19 in favor of the… https://t.co/ZOz4YU63JE pic.twitter.com/jZBPjKCcCh
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) January 26, 2024
CNN shares more on the story:
The Georgia state Senate on Friday passed a resolution creating a special committee to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis amid allegations of an improper affair with her lead prosecutor in the 2020 election subversion case against former President Donald Trump.
The resolution, which cleared the GOP-controlled state Senate 30-19, allows the special committee to subpoena people and evidence while putting witnesses under oath for their testimonies. At the end of its investigation, the committee will submit a report “that will recommend any changes to either legislation or appropriations,” according to state Sen. Greg Dolezal, who introduced the resolution.
“This resolution is about an officer of the state of Georgia, within a subdivision of the state of Georgia, and how they are using state funds,” Dolezal said on the Senate floor. “This falls squarely within what we should be talking about and what we should be addressing.”
The allegations against Willis and Nathan Wade first surfaced in a 127-page court filing earlier this month by former Trump 2020 campaign official Mike Roman, who was indicted over his role in the fake electors plot in Georgia.
Roman alleges that Wade is romantically involved with Willis and used money he billed the district attorney’s office for his work on the case to take her on lavish vacations.
Representative Andy Biggs on X spoke about the possibility of collusion and conspiracy with Fani Willis.
See here:
District Attorney Fani Willis has coordinated with the Biden White House to keep President Trump out of the White House.
This targeting is beginning to smell of collusion and conspiracy.
Justice needs to be served. pic.twitter.com/lzhpdwJoRi
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) January 26, 2024
The Washington Post shares more about Fani Willis:
Lawyers defending former president Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case on Thursday accused Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) of making racially charged accusations against the defendants that could prejudice a future jury and asked a judge to disqualify her and dismiss the case.
The motion from lawyers Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, comes more than two weeks after Trump’s co-defendant Mike Roman alleged in a court filing that Willis appointed Nathan Wade to serve as lead prosecutor in the case — and subsequently paid him more than $650,000 in hourly fees — while engaging in a romantic relationship with him.
Roman requested that Willis and Wade be disqualified from the case and that all charges against him be dropped. Nearly a week later, Willis offered her only public comments on the controversy to date in a 35-minute speech before the congregation at the Big Bethel AME Church, during which she broadly accused her critics of attacking her and Wade because they are Black. In her remarks at the historically Black church, framed as a talk with God to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, Willis questioned why Wade was targeted and not the two other private attorneys appointed as special prosecutors in the case, who are White. She did not mention Roman or any other defendants by name.
Willis’s comments, Trump’s lawyers wrote, “constitute a glaring, flagrant, and calculated effort to foment racial bias into this case by publicly denouncing the defendants for somehow daring to question her decision to hire a Black man (without also mentioning that she is alleged to have had a workplace affair with the same man) to be a special prosecutor. These assertions by the DA engender a great likelihood of substantial prejudice towards the defendants in the eyes of the public in general, and prospective jurors in Fulton County in particular.”
Fani Willis hopes to use her race to curb criticism and legal repercussions.
She’s sorely mistaken that this will work.
The special committee will get to the bottom of these allegations and bring justice.
What do you think?
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