One America News Network By Brooke Mallory
After she repeatedly broke the Peach State’s open records laws, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is now being reprimanded by a Georgia court, which is ordering her to pay a hefty fine.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the district attorney’s office to provide the requested documents and/or provide an explanation for their continued absence late last year in response to a lawsuit filed by conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch. McBurney also left open the possibility of attorneys fees.
According to the court’s most recent judgment, dated January 3rd, but made public just this week, the judge awarded the plaintiffs $21,578 in attorneys’ fees and costs after hearing arguments from Willis and her staff.
“Fani Willis flouted the law, and the court is right to slam her and require, at a minimum, the payment of nearly $22,000 to Judicial Watch,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a press release. “But in the end, Judicial Watch wants the full truth on what she was hiding — her office’s political collusion with the Pelosi January 6 committee to ‘get Trump.’”
Judicial Watch stated in the underlying lawsuit that Willis had made “likely false” statements regarding the retention of the disputed papers.
Overall, the court sided with the plaintiffs, concluding that Willis had broken the law on the merits of repeatedly lying about the existence of at least part of the requested papers and had procedurally lost the case by refusing to respond.
The court’s order is deteriorating in its appraisal of Georgia’s Open Records Act (ORA) violations committed by Willis and her subordinates…
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