DA Fani Willis Faces Deadline on Election Case Appeal

So, Fulton County DA Fani Willis has until September 30 to get her act together and respond to a Supreme Court.

If not, they’re planning on moving Mark Meadows’ election subversion case into federal court.

Last year, she indicted Meadows, Trump, and others for trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

They rolled out “fake electors” and even pressured Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” some extra votes.

It sounds like she was the one trying to overturn results.

Funny how that works.

Supreme Court gives Fani Willis new deadline https://t.co/0FMCplyGuU

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 19, 2024

Newsweek reports:

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis has until September 30 to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court appeal seeking to move former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ election subversion case to federal court.

Willis indicted Meadows, former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others last year on charges of attempting to illegally overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden with the aid of “fake electors” and attempts to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” additional votes for Trump.

Meadows appealed to the Supreme Court last month after a previous attempt to take his case out of Willis’ jurisdiction failed in a lower federal court. The former Trump official claims that he is immune from state prosecution in Georgia due to his alleged crimes being committed while he was performing official duties.

On Monday, the Supreme Court granted the district attorney’s office’s request to delay filing a response to the appeal from Meadows. Had the request been rejected, Willis’ office would have had to respond by August 29.

The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Meadows’ bid to move his case to federal court last December, affirming a lower court decision keeping it in state court and finding that “the events giving rise to this criminal action were not related to Meadows’s official duties.” The decision was reaffirmed by the full bench in February.

In last month’s petition for a writ of certiorari, Meadows lawyer Paul Clement cited the Supreme Court’s recent decision to partially side with Trump on presidential immunity. Clement argued that the same immunity should extend to Meadows, or at least result in the case being removed to federal court.

We’re all asking the same question:

Should Georgia DA Fani Willis be disbarred? pic.twitter.com/X7bQ5m1OtE

— ⚜️💎 Queen Katerina💎⚜️ (@QueenDarbyy) March 13, 2024