{"id":2024682,"date":"2023-09-07T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fani-willis-slams-jim-jordans-offensive-investigation-into-trump-prosecution-in-new-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:59:44","slug":"fani-willis-slams-jim-jordans-offensive-investigation-into-trump-prosecution-in-new-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fani-willis-slams-jim-jordans-offensive-investigation-into-trump-prosecution-in-new-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Fani Willis criticizes Jim Jordan&#8217;s &#8216;offensive&#8217; probe of Trump prosecution in recent letter."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffani-willis-slams-jim-jordans-offensive-investigation-into-trump-prosecution-in-new-letter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024682&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Fulton County District\u2063 Attorney Responds to House Judiciary Committee Chairman<\/h2>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sent a scathing response to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) \u200bon Thursday, \u200carguing that\u2064 he was\u200c interfering with her prosecution of former\u2064 President Donald Trump by his records requests.<\/p>\n<p>She made a number of points\u200c similar to those Manhattan District\u200c Attorney Alvin Bragg had made to Jordan in March about his prosecution \u200dof Trump, \u2064saying Jordan was abusing his congressional power by inquiring \u2063about Georgia \u2062criminal matters.<\/p>\n<h3>Antitrust Case\u200c of \u2064the Century: What to Expect as Justice Department v. Google \u200cCase Begins<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Your attempt to invoke congressional\u200d authority to intrude upon and interfere with an active criminal case in\u2062 Georgia is\u200c flagrantly at odds \u200bwith \u2062the \u2064Constitution,&#8221; Willis wrote, noting \u200dthat his &#8220;violation \u200cof Georgia\u2019s sovereignty is offensive and will not stand.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Willis&#8217;s letter comes in \u200dresponse to Jordan asking Willis last month to provide him with documents and other records related to her indictment of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan specified that \u200dhe had several federal interests with \u200cher indictment. He said he was concerned with how it related to the Constitution&#8217;s Supremacy Clause; how it\u2063 affected Trump, who has federal benefits because of his\u2064 presidency, such\u2062 as Secret Service; how it affected and potentially interfered with the 2024 presidential election, in which Trump is the 2024 \u200dGOP \u2062front-runner; how Willis&#8217;s office had\u2063 used federal funds; and how she may \u2064have coordinated \u2064with special counsel Jack Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Willis said Jordan&#8217;s communication to her\u2062 &#8220;offends principles of state sovereignty, violates the separation of powers, and &#8220;improperly interferes \u2063with the \u200badministration of criminal justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-pelosi-attack-video-to-be-released-today\/\" title=\"Paul Pelosi Attack Video to Be Released Today\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-cultural-change-coming-to-america\/\" title=\"Radical Cultural Change Coming to America?\">district attorney<\/a> claimed<\/a> that the Constitution &#8220;clearly permits [her] to ignore&#8221; \u200bJordan&#8217;s &#8220;unjustified and illegal\u200b intrusion&#8221; on her prosecution but went on to provide a &#8220;voluntary&#8221; response to the chairman.<\/p>\n<p>She made a number of feisty remarks, including instructing \u2062him to\u2064 &#8220;deal with\u200b some basic realities&#8221;\u2063 about how \u2064a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fani-willis-slams-jim-jordans-offensive-investigation-into-trump-prosecution-in-new-letter\/\" title=\"Fani Willis criticizes Jim Jordan's 'offensive' probe of Trump prosecution in recent letter.\">grand jury operates<\/a> and directing\u200b him &#8220;as a non-member\u200c of the \u2062bar&#8221; to purchase a book about\u200c racketeering violations, with which\u2064 she \u200chad charged Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan graduated from law school but did \u200bnot take the bar \u2063exam.<\/p>\n<p>The district attorney also accused him of &#8220;lack[ing] \u200d a \u200bbasic understanding of the law&#8221; and included \u200bin her \u2064letter &#8220;suggestions for productive\u2063 activity&#8221; for Jordan&#8217;s committee.<\/p>\n<p>She \u200cat one \u2063point used Jordan&#8217;s words against him, saying his letter &#8220;calls to mind&#8221; the \u200cletter Jordan wrote to the Jan. 6 select committee last year arguing that its subpoena to Jordan was \u2063an &#8220;unprecedented\u200b action&#8221; that &#8220;serves no legitimate legislative\u2064 purpose.&#8221; Jordan had fought \u200cthe subpoena, and the committee dropped its pursuit of him.<\/p>\n<p>Read Willis&#8217;s full letter below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fulton County DA Fani Willis slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for meddling in her Trump prosecution. In a fiery reply, she accused him of obstructing justice with his record inquiries. Her arguments echoed those of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who had previously confronted Jordan on the same matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2024683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}