Georgia State Lawmaker Remains Committed to Defunding DA Fani Willis Despite GOP Opposition.
Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore remains unwavering in his efforts to defund Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, despite facing opposition from fellow Republican legislators.
Sen. Moore is pushing for a special session of the Georgia Assembly to defund Ms. Willis’s office and launch an investigation into her professional conduct regarding the prosecution of President Donald Trump for alleged election interference.
To make the special session happen, Sen. Moore needs the support of three-fifths of each legislative chamber. However, he has yet to gather enough support, even within his own caucus.
“Republicans are the ones standing in the way,” Sen. Moore told The Epoch Times. “I only have three signatures on this. We’ve been at this now for three weeks. I’m gaining a signature a week—at that rate, we don’t make it.”
However, Sen. Moore remains undeterred in his mission to hold the district attorney accountable, even if it means facing sanctions from his fellow senators.
“Make my day, because I will let no fellow senator, I will let no Republican caucus stand in the way of my valid effort to fight for freedom,” he said. “We swore an oath to the Constitution to protect it, uphold it, and I look at Fani Willis and my constituents look at Fani Willis as a domestic threat to that Constitution.”
Politically Charged
Ms. Willis is currently prosecuting President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants for their alleged involvement in a racketeering conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
The 98-page indictment includes 41 charges, such as violation of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, forgery, and impersonating a public officer.
This is the fourth indictment brought against the 45th president in just over four months. President Trump maintains that these charges are politically motivated to hinder his presidential ambitions.
As a Georgia State Senator, I am officially calling for an emergency session to review the actions of Fani Willis.
America is under attack. I’m not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET political opponents. pic.twitter.com/gpzg2l5uIU
— Sen. Colton Moore (@realColtonMoore) August 17, 2023
Sen. Moore shares this view, calling the indictment “absolutely ridiculous.”
“It just makes your blood boil when Mark Meadows is being charged in a racketeering conspiracy for simply visiting an election site where they were counting votes,” he said. “You know, some of the evidence is nothing more than a tweet calling the election fraudulent. So, these individuals’ First Amendment rights were violated, and this district attorney is using my constituents’ tax money to fund this type of political persecution.”
Sen. Moore also questions whether Ms. Willis has the jurisdiction to bring this case, as many of the alleged crimes occurred at the Georgia State Capitol.
‘No Time to Wait’
President Trump has expressed support for Sen. Moore’s efforts to investigate Ms. Willis, commending the senator for his “courage and conviction.”
However, despite the backing from the former president, other state lawmakers have yet to join the cause.
“Republicans are the ones standing in the way,” Sen. Moore said. “I only have three signatures on this. We’ve been at this now for three weeks. I’m gaining a signature a week—at that rate, we don’t make it.”
He added that those Republicans who have not supported action against Ms. Willis are defying the wishes of their constituents. For example, in Chatham County, the Republican Party unanimously voted to support Sen. Moore’s efforts, yet Republican state Sen. Ben Watson has not signed on for the special session.
Sen. Moore believes this reluctance is due to opposition from Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
“Right now, they’re being pushed up—by constituents, by the people that they represent—they’re being pushed up against the governor, and it’s a difficult position for them,” he said.
“We have a law in the state of Georgia that clearly outlines the legal steps that can be taken if constituents believe their local prosecutors are violating their oath by engaging in unethical or illegal behavior,” he said on Aug. 31. “As long as I am governor, we’re going to follow the law and the Constitution, regardless of who it helps or harms politically.”
The governor also mentioned that he had “not seen any evidence” warranting a review of Ms. Willis’s conduct by the state’s Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, an oversight commission established under a recently enacted law.
Instead of supporting a special session, some state legislators have suggested filing complaints with the commission. However, Sen. Moore believes these legislators are simply trying to pass their responsibilities onto someone else.
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