Georgia Republican Lawmaker Moves to Impeach Trump Prosecutor Fani Willis – A Georgia state senator from the Republican party has initiated proceedings to impeach Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton county. This action follows Willis’s issuance of a 41-count indictment against ex-president Donald Trump and his associates.
The indictment pertains to charges of state racketeering and conspiracy, stemming from their attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Colton Moore penned a letter to Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday, urging an immediate assessment of Willis’s actions.
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“We, the undersigned hereby certify to you that in our opinion an emergency exists in the affairs of the state, requiring a special session to be convened for all purposes, to include, without limitation, the review and response to the actions of Fani Willis,” Moore wrote. Moore, who represents senate district 53, posted his letter on Twitter.
“America is under attack. I’m not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET political opponents,” he added. In a statement reported by the rightwing media outlet Breitbart, Moore said: “We must strip all funding and, if appropriate, impeach Fani Willis.” Moore appears to have also launched a website for the official petition of Willis.
“Corrupt district attorney Fani Willis is potentially abusing her position of power by pursuing former president Donald J Trump, and I am calling on my colleagues in the Georgia legislature to join me in calling for an emergency session to investigate and review her actions and determine if they warrant impeachment.”
“The politically motivated weaponization of our justice system at the expense of taxpayers will not be tolerated. I am demanding that we defund her office until we find out what the hell is going on. We cannot stand idly by as corrupt prosecutors choose to target their political opposition,” the website read.
Moore’s announcement triggered praise from several conservatives online, with one person writing: “Finally a Republican with courage. So refreshing to see someone FIGHT instead of sit back and say ‘there’s nothing we can do.'” Another user wrote: “Finally, a Republican with a backbone.” “Republicans who walk the walk are my kind of Republicans,” someone else wrote.
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Following Willis’s delivery of the 41-count indictment, the Fulton county district attorney, who is African American, has faced a wave of racist abuse online including from Trump, who, using a thinly veiled play on the N-word, wrote on Truth Social: “They never went after those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”