On Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) sent letters to investigators and employees from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis demanding documents and transcribed interviews as the Committee continues its investigation into the coordination between the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and the January 6 Select Committee in furtherance of her political prosecution of President Donald Trump. According to court testimony, these individuals met with the partisan January 6 Select Committee to coordinate their politicized investigations.
The Committee previously wrote to District Attorney Willis requesting documents relating to her coordination with the January 6 Select Committee. Because District Attorney Willis has declined to cooperate, the Committee must pursue other avenues to obtain this information.
Excerpts of the Letter Sent to Deputy District Attorney Will Wooten:
“On December 17, 2021, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote to Representative Bennie Thompson, Chairman of the partisan January 6 Select Committee, to make ‘an official request . . . for access to records that may be relevant’ to the political prosecution of President Trump. District Attorney Willis asked Representative Thompson for access to ‘record[s] includ[ing] but . . . not limited to recordings and transcripts of witness interviews and depositions, electronic and print records of communications, and records of travel.’ District Attorney Willis noted that she and her staff were eager to travel to Washington, D.C, to ‘meet with investigators in person’ and to receive these records ‘any time’ between January 31, 2022, and February 25, 2022.’ According to recent testimony by Dexter Bond, an FCDAO Assistant District Attorney, you and several other employees from the FCDAO traveled to Washington, D.C., at the expense of Fulton County taxpayers, to meet with members and staff of the January 6 Select Committee and review nonpublic Committee documents.
“We previously wrote to District Attorney Willis requesting documents relating to her coordination with the January 6 Select Committee. However, District Attorney Willis has declined to cooperate in full with our inquiry. Most recently, on December 12, 2024, the Committee received a letter from District Attorney Willis in which she confirmed the existence of materials responsive to our requests, referring to such materials as ‘key evidence’ in the prosecution, but declined to produce such materials on the grounds that the materials were ‘protected from disclosure by attorney-client privilege, work product privilege, and other common law protections.’ Because District Attorney Willis has declined to cooperate, the Committee must pursue other avenues to obtain this information.”
Read the letter to Michael Hill here.
Read the letter to Trina Swanson-Lucas here.
Read the letter to Donald Wakeford here.
Read the letter to Will Wooten here.
