Georgia Republicans are looking for new routes to attack Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as Donald Trump’s election-related RICO trial in Atlanta nears. And they are using unproven allegations of impropriety by Willis, lobbed by one of Trump’s co-defendants, to do it.
The most explosive allegations by co-defendant Mike Roman claim that Willis had a romantic relationship with a special prosecutor on the Trump case and that they may have used department funds to travel together, and he is moving to have Willis disqualified from the case. Legal experts like MSNBC contributor Glenn Kirschner have argued that such a relationship, if true, doesn’t have any bearing on the case, and the matter is being examined by a judge.
But Republicans are gung-ho to use the issue as a pretext to get rid of Willis.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that state Sen. Greg Dolezal has introduced legislation that would establish a new Senate committee tasked with investigating allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
According to the AJC:
Dolezal’s legislation would create a Senate Special Committee on Investigations that would have the ability to subpoena people and evidence, and require that testimony be given under oath. No other legislative committees require that witnesses testify under oath. Under the measure, if the committee finds there has been misconduct, it can recommend changes to the state law or budget.
A statement from Dolezal makes it clear the unproven allegations from Roman inspired his new bill, which could be used to hamstring Willis with new laws to hamper her work or deplete her office’s budget. The bill is “in response to a wave of concerning reports and court filings regarding District Attorney Fani Willis of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit,” he said. He claimed the filings warrant a “thorough and impartial examination,” which, to reiterate, is precisely what a judge is already undertaking.
But conservatives aren’t putting…
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