'Likely false': Fani Willis sued over alleged communications with special counsel Jack Smith and Jan. 6 committee

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Source: Law & Crime

Mar 14th, 2024, 1:26 pm


Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is violating Georgia open records law by refusing to turn over documents related to her communications with special counsel Jack Smith and the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a lawsuit alleges.

In the 16-page filing, conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch accuses Willis, and broader Fulton County, of making “likely false” representations about the retention of such documents. “Fani Willis and Fulton County seem to have provided false information about having no records of communications with Jack Smith and the Pelosi January 6 committee,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a Wednesday press release announcing the lawsuit.

On Aug. 22, 2023, the watchdog group filed an open records request for all “documents and communication sent to, received from, or relating to” Smith, any employees in his office, and the House committee investigating the pro-Donald Trump riots at the U.S. Capitol. After the request was acknowledged, Fulton County sent a reply stating they “do not have the responsive records,” the lawsuit says.

On March 5, the right-wing watchdog group filed the lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court, alleging later-in-time information shows such records, at least to a limited extent, are in Fulton County’s possession.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/likely-false-fani-willis-sued-over-alleged-communications-with-special-counsel-jack-smith-and-jan-6-committee/

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Link to Judicial Watch PRESS RELEASE - Judicial Watch Sues Fani Willis for Communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith, Pelosi January 6 Committee

[bucolic_frolic]

1. "Pelosi January 6 committee" is not the legal title of the committee

The hatred dangles from their lips.

[pecosbob]

2. Not a lawyer, but if you can't demonstrate harm you don't have standing...now go away.

[Ursus Rex]

3. The point is to get the allegations out there

... and once in the right-wing echo chamber, they will be repeated ENDLESSLY.

[onetexan]

10. Yup RWers are just making crap up now to muddy the waters

& delay delay delay because they know they're criminal. That is the idea.

[Igel]

6. They asked and got nothing.

They allege that there was something illegal held back.

From them. By Willis or her office.

That's standing.

[ificandream]

4. Judicial Watch is a fraudulent watchdog group. They're a right-wing front.

They have nothing on Fani Willis.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Yup

and they, like Gymsuit, are doing a pile-on.

(I know DU has lots of lawyers among its members and they are monitoring all the legal suits and motions)

[ShazzieB]

7. Oh, ffs!

What a steaming pile of bull pucky!

[pfitz59]

8. Roy Cohn lives on in MAGAt-landia.

This is Trump's tactic, been this way his entire adult life.

[Novara]

9. How does a "watchdog group" - a smear operation - have standing to obtain official communications?

And even if her office did communicate with the special counsel, the charges in both cases are similar, so duh. It's all part of the attempt to steal the election.

As part of my job I often FOIA materials. I am not entitled to communications. How in hell are they?