Thanks for posting the YouTube link. I wanted to wake up at 7 to watch this, but slept late and couldn't rewind on the State of Georgia site.
For those wondering about this procedure...
1) It is FROM the trial (in part) but not FOR the trial. They could find a signed letter from Fani Willis saying "Nathan, Keep giving me that D and I'll give you $1 million to indict Trump even though you think there's no case worth making here, Love Boo." and it wouldn't do anything to the case
2) With that, the beauty is we get direct answers and direct documents from Ashleigh Merchant in response to her eight-month review of the Fulton County D.A.'s office and Nathan Wade/Fani Willis' corruption.
3) So what is happening and why? The state Senate's Republican majority knows Fani is dirty and wants to publicly expose everything that Wade and Willis wouldn't admit to in court. Of course, the Democrats will claim this is just a partisan exercise to make her look bad, but as I kept asking myself during the court hearings two weeks ago -- why does the D.A.'s office keep objecting to every question if the truth will support their claims?
3a) While Judge McAfee (wisely) refused to hear evidence on Wade's lack of qualifications to be hired for this position ("If you have a pulse and a bar card you're qualified") this committee will be able to look into that fact.
So what can become of this hearing today and the state Senate committee's future work? Not much. This isn't the committee that has (in theory, never been tested) the power to remove a rogue district attorney. But that group will absolutely use anything found here for that purpose.
But if light is the best disinfectant, the hearings two weeks ago and this morning's committee hearing will produce the documents and testimony of how loathsome this pair is, how they've abused the Fulton County taxpayers to funnel $1 million to an attorney who has no experience in this field how this is a completely politically motivated pursuit.
There also will be a Fulton County Board of Ethics hearing tomorrow involving this case. I BELIEVE that Fani has been ordered to appear for that one.
(I'm not a lawyer, just following all of this closely. I'll be happy to chime in and answer any questions, but I have new poster post limitations so I might have to answer in this post.)
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Gov. Kemp has said he will sign the legislation that would allow the state Senate to form a committee with the power to remove local prosecutors.
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ATLANTA -- A Georgia commission with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors needs only Gov. Brian Kemp's approval before it can begin operations, possibly disrupting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
The state House voted 97-73 on Tuesday for Senate Bill 332, sending it to Kemp. The Republican governor has said he will sign the measure.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/georgia-pushes-group-sanction-prosecutors-fani-willis-faces-107816726****
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Also Wade was paid twice the amount the Fulton Co Office paid a different attorney that worked an actual RICO criminal case that had 30 years experience specializing in RICO with the US Atty Office and on a different RICO case he handled in Fulton Co a few years ago. Lots of money being passed around.
Not only by billing rate ($250/hr. contrasted to to $150/hr. for the other two, more experienced lawyers), but in terms of assignments. Wade is at $650k and counting and is well on his way to topping $1 million if he's on hand for a six-week trial. The other two "special prosecutors" hired have earned $100,000 or less.
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Feb 23-24 2023 Fani Willis and Nathan Wade met with the DOJ and the J6 Committee twice for eight hours "off campus" in other words not at the DOJ or Capitol.
I'm dying to know where "off campus" is because Fani claimed she had never traveled to Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia or anywhere in that area with Nathan Wade.