Jill Wine-Banks: As drafted, new Ga. law wouldn't go into effect until after Apr. '24

[bigtree]

DOJ Pretext Bot @parrhizzia Mar 7
Hi @JillWineBanks, 👋
If Georgia Republicans actually DO fire Fanni Willis, and shut down the Trump investigation, will DOJ do anything? My bet: absolutely nothing, neither to defend Willis nor prosecute Trump for those crimes. Thoughts?

Jill Wine-Banks @JillWineBanks Mar 8
As drafted, the new law would not go into effect until after April 2024 so it will not impact DA Fani Willis indicting #TFG.
twitter.com/JillWineBanks/status/1633370900459401219

"All members shall be appointed by October 1, 2023, and their initial terms shall begin on January 1, 2024."

"No complaint shall be filed before April 1, 2024"
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20232024/217186

[gab13by13]

1. I agree, It will have no effect on an indictment

what about its effect on a trial?

Someone better file a lawsuit against this bill now, then again, Clarence and his cronies will have the final say.

[riversedge]

2. I just wish these investigations would hurry up. yes, I know -the Law is slow.

[RKP5637]

3. Yeah, same here, they go on and on and are anxiety provoking. Yep, it can be slow. n/t

[republianmushroom]

5. and sometimes they don't move at all.

27 months and counting

[RKP5637]

7. Yep! It's so damn frustrating. n/t

[Beastly Boy]

8. Are you familiar with Einsteins laws of relativiry?

According to them, the closer to the speed of light you travel, the slower the movement of people on this earth will appear to you, and when you reach the speed of light, they appear to not move at all. You will lose touch with time as other earthlings see it.

Get back to earth. Don't let your expectations exceed the speed of light.

[republianmushroom]

9. I'm not worried, I have very little expectations.

27 months and counting

[AZSkiffyGeek]

11. Not to mention you can't count

Which is essential to studying physics. But keep up the spam.

[gab13by13]

14. There you are,

where you been? I missed you.😊

[AZSkiffyGeek]

16. I've been supporting our president

Unlike some posting on this thread who rely on neoconservative never Trumpers for their news.

[republianmushroom]

17. What is more essential is to know what is being counted.

27 months and counting

[AZSkiffyGeek]

18. Sea lions, man

[Beastly Boy]

12. You obviously ARE worried.

Or at least you are making a big show of counting time from where you are.

[republianmushroom]

20. No, my expectations are about the same as I had with billy barr

Not very high.

[Beastly Boy]

21. So you are confirming the latter.

Showing off the same redundant meme over and over again under the pretense of counting god knows what for god knows what purpose to god knows what effect.

Got it.

[Beastly Boy]

6. Fanni is very unlikely to prosecute the case herself.

Before the trial begins, all the pertinent paperwork will be filed with the presiding judge, at which tome the judge, not the AG, becomes the custodian of the case. Short of total purge of the entire ofifce of the AG, which is not permitted by the new law, there will be prosecutors who will take the trial to its conclusion.

[Silent Type]

4. I'd bet money that Democrats pushed for the "No complaint" clause. Hopefully, this

legislation will be used to remove DAs like the one in Brunswick who was going to let the lynchers of Ahmaud Arbery off the hook.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

13. I read the law was initially proposed by Democrats for that exact reason

[bringthePaine]

10. utter bullshit in any case

[grantcart]

15. Let's wait and see

Sometimes DAs, even progressive ones, need to be removed.

Winning an election doesn't mean that you are good at the job.

In El Paso progressive candidate Rosales won and apparently turned out to be incompetent (I saw the news coverage at the end of her term when I was in El Paso - didn't see the build up).

Apparently she was a terrible litigator and office manager. Apparently she mishandled prosecuting the racist Walmart mass shooter. A community wide (liberal Democratic community) wanted her out and she resigned before the Governor was going to remove her. In this instance it wasn't a partisan issue.

[bigtree]

22. the concerns most have expressed after the gaslit reports of this law

...is that the Trump prosecution would be halted in the case of Fani Willis' removal.

That's far-fetched, because it willl likely be career prosecutors who try the cases in court, not Willis.

I think it will be effectively challenged in court- making it moot.

No one should be waiting to see if any of it will come to pass.

Eye on the ball. No one with any credibility believes Fani Willis has done anything to deserve reprimand or removal. Besides, the impetus of this legislation is that prosecutors weren't pursuing charges someone on the republican side wanted. The gymnastics involved in reprimanding a DA for acting on prosecutable offenses should be entertaining, and ultimately self-defeating if this actually comes before a judge.

[grantcart]

23. The key point that is missing in the discussion is that the

GA Secretary of State (and Governor) stood up for the law. In fact it is the SOS phone recording of Trump that is the foundation of the case.

Beyond that is the reality that Republican political experts, office holders and money pockets all want Trump taken out but know that no one in the Republican Party can do it, they are praying that Democratic prosecutors will do what they can't.

[Initech]

19. This is all about holding onto power and that's about it.