The Georgia state House of Representatives passed a bill that would create two oversight panels that could remove elected county-level district attorneys from their posts if they are deemed to have acted in bad faith.
Critics of House Bill 231 noted that it appears to have a specific target in mind: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading an inquiry into an attempt by former President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election., in which he demanded that the official “find” him 12,000 more votes so that he could override now-President Joe Biden’s win in the state.
Political commentators have noted that the bill that passed the state legislature this week — along with another Republican proposal that seeks to lower the recount signature threshold needed for elected officials in the state — came aboutthat a recall campaign against Willis would be futile. Some of the most vociferous supporters of the bill are Trump allies who have been targeted by Willis’s investigation, including Lt. Gov.
The Trump inquiry is one of around 20,000 cases being examined by Willis’s office. Notably, Willis has spent
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