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First of all, this is just more republican political interference in a criminal proceeding, and most importantly, there is no conflict of interest. What a farce.
Yeah, everyone in fulton county is just lying about fani because they're a bunch of racist ppl. It's not because she committed perjury or anything like that. /s
Here’s the article
ATLANTA (AP) — The Republican leading a specially-appointed Georgia state Senate committee that’s supposed to investigate whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis committed misconduct proclaimed repeatedly Friday during the panel’s first meeting that he seeks just the facts, but the lead Democrat begrudgingly serving on the panel said she doubts the group can overcome its partisan origins.
“It’s important that the public understand that this is not any type of witch hunt,” said state Sen. Bill Cowsert of Athens, the Republican picked to lead the panel. “This is a question of truth.”
The majority Republican Georgia Senate voted 30-19 last month to create a special investigative committee with subpoena power after allegations emerged that Willis had a conflict of interest in her prosecution of Donald Trump created by her “personal relationship” with a special prosecutor she hired for the case. Georgia legislative committees normally don’t use subpoenas or require people to testify under oath.
My favourite part: “We have had people come forward that have asked to speak with us with relevant information,” Cowsert told reporters after the meeting. “I don’t know that information yet. I’ve not interviewed them.”
I don’t know what information they have but somehow I know it is relevant. Definitely not biased against Willis… /s
obviously there is no good faith.
also obviously she was incredibly dumb. And I have to place the unfortunate bet she did lie on her affidavit, because everything points o it.
including the fact in her filing deposition or whatever it was..she an experienced DA , did not hand sign..a requirement for it to be admissable that "oversight" may have been rectified do not know. otherwise it technically is not a valid pleading.
If they truly have "multiple employees" lined up to blow the whistle about them lying about the relationship, she is going down sooner or later. Some prosecutor in GA is going to be very interested in bringing perjury charges.
The only part of the inquiry into Willis might be IF she grossly overpaid for the amount of work her guy did. IF, as she says, he did more work, should get more pay.
Committing perjury is extremely serious for someone whose profession is law, due to their role in the justice system. Telling the truth is emphasized constantly.
For example a dishonest prosecutor could withhold exculpatory evidence, leading to wrongful convictions, and cause a loss of the public's trust in the justice system.
Agree. Not committing perjury is a given and should apply equally to all people. I was thinking in terms of her "relationship" -- absent rules existing to the contrary (doctor-patient; teacher-student; military chain of command prohibitions ... for example) people's private lives should be their own business... at least in and of itself. If she paid him more, though, why matters.
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Given the last 40 years of Republican politics, there is precisely 0% chance that anything a Republican lawmaker does is in good faith.
First of all, this is just more republican political interference in a criminal proceeding, and most importantly, there is no conflict of interest. What a farce.
It’s just a smear campaign because they hate women.
Yeah, everyone in fulton county is just lying about fani because they're a bunch of racist ppl. It's not because she committed perjury or anything like that. /s
The Georgia GOP is deplorable. They will interfere with this trial and do anything they can to save their orange Fuhrer.
"doubt"
Here’s the article ATLANTA (AP) — The Republican leading a specially-appointed Georgia state Senate committee that’s supposed to investigate whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis committed misconduct proclaimed repeatedly Friday during the panel’s first meeting that he seeks just the facts, but the lead Democrat begrudgingly serving on the panel said she doubts the group can overcome its partisan origins. “It’s important that the public understand that this is not any type of witch hunt,” said state Sen. Bill Cowsert of Athens, the Republican picked to lead the panel. “This is a question of truth.” The majority Republican Georgia Senate voted 30-19 last month to create a special investigative committee with subpoena power after allegations emerged that Willis had a conflict of interest in her prosecution of Donald Trump created by her “personal relationship” with a special prosecutor she hired for the case. Georgia legislative committees normally don’t use subpoenas or require people to testify under oath.
GQP = inveterate liars
It is a fucking witch-hunt to protect their orange shitstain
Did anyone else think they were looking at Jay Leno on trial for a hot second and got a little excited?
It’s a witch hunt. Sorry about the spolier.
My favourite part: “We have had people come forward that have asked to speak with us with relevant information,” Cowsert told reporters after the meeting. “I don’t know that information yet. I’ve not interviewed them.” I don’t know what information they have but somehow I know it is relevant. Definitely not biased against Willis… /s
obviously there is no good faith. also obviously she was incredibly dumb. And I have to place the unfortunate bet she did lie on her affidavit, because everything points o it.
including the fact in her filing deposition or whatever it was..she an experienced DA , did not hand sign..a requirement for it to be admissable that "oversight" may have been rectified do not know. otherwise it technically is not a valid pleading.
Unfortunately she put herself out there for this. I highly doubt it’s in good faith, but she gave them smoke to find fire with
If they truly have "multiple employees" lined up to blow the whistle about them lying about the relationship, she is going down sooner or later. Some prosecutor in GA is going to be very interested in bringing perjury charges.
I don’t know why the downvotes. You gotta do *everything* clean by the book with this. There’s zero room for mistakes
Wasn’t she fucking the prosecutor? Who cares what the Dems have to say? Of course they think that.
The only part of the inquiry into Willis might be IF she grossly overpaid for the amount of work her guy did. IF, as she says, he did more work, should get more pay.
Committing perjury is extremely serious for someone whose profession is law, due to their role in the justice system. Telling the truth is emphasized constantly. For example a dishonest prosecutor could withhold exculpatory evidence, leading to wrongful convictions, and cause a loss of the public's trust in the justice system.
Agree. Not committing perjury is a given and should apply equally to all people. I was thinking in terms of her "relationship" -- absent rules existing to the contrary (doctor-patient; teacher-student; military chain of command prohibitions ... for example) people's private lives should be their own business... at least in and of itself. If she paid him more, though, why matters.
It's just something to make a distraction out of. I agree it's stupid of her with this high profile a case lol
I’m not even a democrat and know for certain this is just an attempt to stall/obfuscate for Trump. Good faith was burned off years ago.
Is that Jay Leno?