Jim Jordan Gives Fani Willis an Ultimatum
Source: Newsweek
By Katherine Fung
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is giving Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis an ultimatum: cooperate with his investigation into her office or potentially face contempt of Congress. Jordan wrote a letter to Willis on Thursday, first reported by Fox 5 Atlanta, warning her that if she does not produce all the documents the House committee has requested within two weeks, "the Committee will consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceeding." The Ohio Republican said Willis has until noon on March 28 to comply with the panel's subpoena.
Jordan first subpoenaed Willis over the allegations that she misused federal funds on February 2, asking the district attorney to turn over documents and communications related to her office's receipt and use of federal money received from the Justice Department. In the letter, he said the committee had "appreciated" the "narrow set of documents" that it had received from Willis in response to the subpoena, but deemed her compliance to date as "deficient."
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have been looking into Willis' use of federal funds during her office's investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies. Willis accused Jordan of trying to obstruct the prosecution of Trump's election interference case in Georgia and, in September, called his earlier request for information an "unjustified and illegal intrusion into an open state criminal prosecution."
On Thursday, Jordan accused the district attorney of smearing a former employee for speaking out about her misuse of federal grant funds. "We will not dignify your attacks on this brave whistleblower, or your continued attempts to distract from your conduct through misdirection and personal insults," Jordan wrote. "The allegations in the public realm about your misuse of federal grant funding are concerning, and the Committee has an obligation to examine them." He argued that although Willis said the panel's subpoena was "overbroad and unduly burdensome," his committee had, "on the contrary," been exercising its authority "with restraint."
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/jim-jordan-gives-fani-willis-ultimatum-1879328
I bet she's scared.
Magoo48
(4,712 posts)But he's still a hypocrite. He defied subpoenas. So really, I don't see why Willis should have to comply.
Say I will show up after you show up for the subpoena you never complied with. How many years has it been jimmy/gym that you have ignored that subpoena?
AZ8theist
(5,470 posts)He was subpoenaed on May 12th, 2022:
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/jim-jordan-merrick-garland-subpoena-b2415984.html
So it's been (so far) 1 year, 10 months and 3 days. AND COUNTING.....
lonely bird
(1,685 posts)He was and still is a gutless, loud-mouthed asshole.
Was he ever something useful? No.
lastlib
(23,242 posts)I personally see him as the kind of thing that hangs on after I've dropped a load......
rubbersole
(6,694 posts)They both circle your anus looking for cling-ons.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)Link to tweet
Link to tweet
DA Fani Willis has previously called Gym out for not passing the bar. Gym never passed or took the bar exam even though he is the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. This shade really made me smile
Link to tweet
heckles65
(549 posts)I thought Republicans were really big on having states do their own thing?
Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)Maybe it'll go away if he just looks the other way....
GreenWave
(6,757 posts)4lbs
(6,858 posts)Fuck Off And Die (FOAD)
By the way, your toupee isn't fooling anyone with a brain. You are 60 years old but with very little grey hair? Yeah, sure. OK.
lonely bird
(1,685 posts)NanaCat
(1,141 posts)I'm older than he is, and yet I have almost no grey in my hair. You have to look close sometimes to see what grey I do have. Yes, it's my 100% natural hair. No dyes, tints, rinses, wigs, extensions--none of it, only what I was born with. So people can get into their 60s with their natural colour staying (mostly) intact. Just because it doesn't happen often doesn't mean it never does.
This idiot has enough genuine flaws that warrant criticism to waste time on imaginary ones. And, without firm evidence, that's what this claim about his hair status is--imaginary.
AllaN01Bear
(18,245 posts)Hope22
(1,842 posts)he failed to protect his college students from harm and by that fact he harmed them. He is really a despicable clump of cells!
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)She was quite professional and polite the first time. Somehow, this time I picture:
"Dear Chairman Jordan...Go fuck yourself"
Knew I should have bought popcorn futures.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,196 posts)bigmonk
(52 posts)Is it even legal for congress to do this? I would think it would be illegal for even a congressman to try to intimidate or impede a prosecutor. If congress can attack prosecutors like this, I can't see how they could convict anyone.
padah513
(2,503 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)He's not only a sick joke, he's become a caricature of himself, Foghorn Leghorn in the flesh.
kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)He just a blow heart wanting attention.
Silent Type
(2,906 posts)to convict the worse Prez in history.
MichMan
(11,932 posts)NanaCat
(1,141 posts)He can ask for documentation on how her office is spending federal funds. He can't ask for case files of an ongoing prosecution.
Big difference.
Hikerchick57
(118 posts)He likes to think he is important but every time he opens his mouth his ignorance is obvious!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)Dulcinea
(6,639 posts)Committee assignments or something? I hope she tells him to fuck off.
Justice matters.
(6,929 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,369 posts)YOURSELF!!!
AND, the United States Government has no jurisdiction
(of which the House of Representatives is a portion)
over the prosecutors of a criminal prosecution in a state court---
just in case you flunked high school civics (which I presume you did)
I am pretty sick of this guy. I pray for some "agent of karma" to put him down...
You know---- make him depressed
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)and throw them in prison if they don't submit to the harassment.
live love laugh
(13,118 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)He might draw back a nub.
NanaCat
(1,141 posts)Does he not understand the difference between a county prosecutor and the federal government?
No--please don't answer. I'm still working on my first cuppa, so my brain can't yet process his level of stupid.
PS Never mind how he's the rock bottom last person who can demand that anyone comply with a Congressional subpoena.
You first, Jacketoff.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)F off Gym.
Botany
(70,515 posts)The crimes in Georgia had to do with racketeering and trying to stop the legitimate ballots
being counted by substituting fraudulent ones. This highly illegal scheme was run by Mark
Meadows, Rudy G, Eastman, and Clark on behalf of D. Trump along with trying to f-with the
voting and tabulating machines.
Fani has her strategy is laid out as clear as can be and that is she is going to flip and has
flipped some of the Georgia republicans who submitted fraudulent electoral ballots in order
to rob the people of Georgia of a fair election.
Fani use of RICO laws means that the lower level shits have to come clean about what
they did in 2020 and 2021 or get a mandatory 5 years in the grey bar motel in order to
protect D. Trump and Meadows.
Fani is gonna roll up the whole thing. As she said when she started her work on the criminal
attack on the Georgia election, I dont come to play.
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)Shouting little man says what?
onetexan
(13,041 posts)Novara
(5,843 posts)You have no authority over Willis just like you have no authority over me.