Georgia’s governor has helped fuel the right-wing crusade against Democratic prosecutors such as Fani Willis. Now he wants the crusaders to stand down.
in the Atlanta area and instead engages in political hit jobs.It’s a point that Kemp’s critics have also noted.
Jill Habig is the founder of the Public Rights Project, an advocacy group representing a bipartisan coalition of prosecutors suing to stop S.B. 92 from going into effect. She said in a statement that “Governor Kemp’s statements discouraging Georgia officials from retaliating against DA Fani Willis are welcome, but too little and too late.”
She added that Kemp “has already opened Pandora’s box by creating a partisan commission with broad and vaguely defined authority to investigate, discipline and remove duly-elected prosecutors for, among other things, ‘bring[ing] the office into disrepute.’” And Habig also noted that under S.B. 92, KempKemp’s support for S.B. 92 shows he has a wobbly view of prosecutorial independence.
The dubious legal footing on which S.B. 92 rests, and the near-certainty that it will be weaponized for political purposes, is precisely why the Public Rights Project and the prosecutors it reps have sued to stop S.B. 92 and the Prosecuting Attorneys Oversight Commission it would create. Kemp’s support for S.B. 92 shows he has a wobbly view of prosecutorial independence. It’s all well and good that he doesn’t think there’s reason to use it against Willis now. But he essentially gave anti-Willis conservatives a weapon when he signed the bill and told them how to use it.
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