In a letter, Fani Willis says the House Judiciary chair’s demands for records in her case against the ex-president were “flagrantly at odds with the Constitution.”
. Jordan demanded to know whether Willis’s office had used federal funds to pay for the investigation and suggested that the case was “politically motivated.”
“Many have speculated that this indictment and prosecution are designed to interfere with the 2024 presidential election,” Jordan wrote in the letter, which also included a demand for “all documents and communications” between the district attorney’s office and “any federal executive branch officials” about the 2020 election interference investigation.
“The defendants in this case have been charged under state law with committing state crimes. There is absolutely no support for Congress purporting to second guess or somehow supervise an ongoing Georgia criminal investigation and prosecution,” Willis added.Willis suggested that Jordan’s questions about how she had prosecuted the case “shows a total ignorance of Georgia’s racketeering statute and the basics of criminal conspiracy law.
“I encourage you to read ‘RICO State-by-State,’ Willis wrote, referring to a book by John Floyd, a special prosecutor on the 2020 election case. “As a non-member of the bar, you can purchase a copy for two hundred forty-nine dollars [$249].” The back-and-forth came amid continued legal wrangling over how and when Trump and his 18 co-defendants will be tried in the sprawling racketeering case. On Wednesday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set an Oct. 23 trial date for two people charged in the case: former Trump campaign attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, who invoked their rights to a speedy trial.
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