Court: Fani Willis Must Turn Over Communications With ‘Get Trump’ Special Counsel Jack Smith, J6 Committee

Willis is a disgrace to the justice system.

A Superior Court in Georgia on Tuesday found Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in default, ordering her to provide records that Judicial Watch requested related to her communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office or the January 6.

Post Millennial: The Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia has ordered that District Attorney Fani Willis hand over all communications she had with special counsel Jack Smith and the defunct January 6 Committee to Judicial Watch, which sued Willis under the Open Records Act (ORA). The court granted the default judgment motion brought forth by Judicial Watch, which stated that Willis had been served with the lawsuit in March 2024, but by May when Judicial Watch asked the court to declare default judgment, Willis had still “not filed an answer” despite it being due “30 days after service.” The order centers around the deadline in which Willis had to respond, with Willis being served on March 11 and a return of service being filed two days later. However, the latter document did not appear on the court’s electronic docket. In April the court, “believing that Defendant had not yet been served,” filed an order directing Judicial Watch to serve the defendant, who refiled the return that showed Willis had been served on March 11 (Post Millennial).

George: This could bring major legal troubles for Fani if, indeed, she coordinated with the federal government to go after President Trump (X). Amuse: Fulton County District Attorney Big Fani Willis just suffered a major defeat in her ill-conceived RICO trial in Georgia. The longest trial in Georgia history with 28 defendants ended in not guilty charges for all defendants (Shannon Stillwell was found guilty of a single gun charge, but given time served) (X).

Court: Fani Willis Must Turn Over Communications With ‘Get Trump’ Special Counsel, J6 Committee

By: Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist, December 03, 2024

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must forfeit any and all communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and House Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee, a state judge ruled on Tuesday.

In his six-page order, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that Willis is “in default” for failing to file court documents responding to a legal challenge brought by Judicial Watch.

The conservative watchdog group filed a lawsuit against Willis in March after the Democrat district attorney denied having any of the records the group sought in an August 2023 open records request. That request aimed to obtain communications between her office and the special counsel and/or the Jan. 6 Committee.

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Judicial Watch argued in its lawsuit that Willis’ “representation about not having records responsive to the request is likely false,” citing a December 2023 letter issued to the Fulton County prosecutor by the House Judiciary Committee. The committee indicated that Willis— who indicted Donald Trump and 18 other Republicans last year — “had coordinated [her] politically motivated prosecutions” and “investigative actions” with Smith’s office and the Jan. 6 Committee, respectively.

Despite Willis having multiple opportunities to respond to Judicial Watch’s legal filing, McBurney noted that she “never moved to open default on any basis (not even during the period when she could have opened default as a matter of right), she never paid costs, and she never offered up a meritorious defense.”

“Plaintiff [Judicial Watch] is thus entitled to judgment by default as if every item and paragraph of the complaint were supported by proper and sufficient evidence,” McBurney wrote. “Here, this means Plaintiff has established that Defendant [Willis] violated the [Open Records Act] by failing to either turn over responsive records or else notify Plaintiff of her decision to withhold some or all such records.”

The Fulton County judge subsequently ordered Willis to “conduct a diligent search of her records for responsive materials within five business days of the entry of this Order.” A court hearing has been scheduled for Dec. 20 to decide Judicial Watch’s “request for attorney’s fees and costs.”

“We’ve been doing this work for 30 years, and this is the first time in our experience a government official has been found in default for not showing up in court to answer an open records lawsuit,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Judicial Watch looks forward to getting any documents from the Fani Willis operation about collusion with the Biden administration and Nancy Pelosi’s Congress on her unprecedented and compromised ‘get-Trump’ prosecution.”