A high profile conservative law firm is asking a Georgia court to enter a default judgment against anti-Trump prosecutor and liberal Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, after Willis failed to respond to a lawsuit demanding documents detailing her coordination with Washington liberals in Trump\u2019s case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced it \u201chas asked the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, to declare a default judgment against District Attorney Fani Willis in Judicial Watch\u2019s lawsuit seeking records of communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The motion was filed after Willis simply refused to respond to Judicial Watch\u2019s suit seeking what are supposed to be publicly-available records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think this is the first time in Judicial Watch\u2019s thirty years that a government official failed to answer an open records lawsuit in court,\u201d Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. \u201cThis further shows Ms. Willis has something to hide about her collusion with the Biden administration and Nancy Pelosi\u2019s Congress on her unprecedented and compromised \u2018get-Trump\u2019 prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County, GA, after Willis and the county denied having any records responsive to an August 2023 Georgia Open Records Act request for communications with the Special Counsel\u2019s office and\/or the January 6 Committee (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fani Willis et al. (No. 24-CV-002805)). (Judicial Watch dismissed Fulton County from the lawsuit.),\u201d Judicial Watch notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judicial Watch notes Willis \u201cwas served with the lawsuit on March 11, 2024, but that she has not yet answered it,\u201d writing in its motion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Defendant has not filed an answer and no answer has been served upon [Judicial Watch].\u2026 Defendant\u2019s answer was due 30 days after service, or on April 10, 2024. Pursuant to [Georgia law] the case automatically became in default when an answer was not filed by the due date. Further pursuant to that Code section, Defendant was permitted as a matter of right to open the default within 15 days of the day of default, or by April 25, 2024.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Judicial Watch asserts it \u201cis now entitled to a verdict and judgment by default.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n By all accounts, Willis coordinated her case with some liberals in Washington, and has records that Judicial Watch and the public are legally entitled to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In its lawsuit Judicial Watch states that Willis\u2019 \u201crepresentation about not having records responsive to the request is likely false.\u201d Judicial Watch also cited \u201cnews reports and other records which \u2018indicate that representatives of Willis\u2019s office traveled to Washington, DC, and met with January 6 Select Committee staffers in April, May, and November 2022, as Willis proposed in her December 17, 2021 letter \u2026\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Judicial Watch is assisted in the case by John Monroe of John Monroe Law in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of Great America News Desk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A high profile conservative law firm is asking a Georgia court to enter a default judgment against anti-Trump prosecutor and liberal Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, after Willis failed to respond to a lawsuit demanding documents detailing her coordination with Washington liberals in Trump\u2019s case. The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[400,514,70,8,482,219,78],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-classified-documents","tag-commentary","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-fani-willis","tag-georgia","tag-joe-biden"],"yoast_head":"\n
Judicial Watch points to \u201ca December 5, 2023, letter from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan to Willis that cites a December 2021, letter from Willis to then-House January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson. In that letter Willis requested assistance from the committee and offered to travel to DC.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n