Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was issued a default judgement on Tuesday after she failed to honor an Open Records Act request from Judicial Watch.
A Georgia judge ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Williams to hand over records related to her communications with special counsel Jack Smith and the U.S. House January 6 Committee after failing to comply with a request under the Open Records Act . The nonprofit group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Willis in March after her office claimed it did not have any documents and communications on file between Willis and Smith or Willis and the January 6th Committee.
Plaintiff is thus entitled to judgment by default as if every item and paragraph of the complaint were supported by proper and sufficient evidence,' McBurney wrote in his decision, while also ordering her to pay Judicial Watch’s attorney’s fees. 'Here, this means Plaintiff has established that Defendant violated the ORA by failing to either turn over responsive records or else notify Plaintiff of her decision to withhold some or all such records.
lawmakers had said Willis asked the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 to share evidence with her office. Last year, President-elect Trump and 18 others pleaded not guilty to all charges in connection to a racketeering indictment for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Four of the defendants who were charged alongside Trump took plea deals in exchange for testifying against the other defendants. Trump's team and other defendants had previously asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hold oral arguments to determine whether Willis could continue to prosecute the case.
The Court of Appeals canceled the arguments in November, which were initially scheduled for early December. Fox News Digital’s Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
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