The Georgia prosecutor who indicted Trump, Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis, is being targeted by the GOP for removal under a new law.

A little over a week after a prosecutor in Georgia indicted former President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 presidential election, Republicans said they will use a new law to remove her from office.

In May, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the law that created a new commission of political appointees with the power to remove and discipline elected prosecutors over decisions or policies not to prosecute certain offenses. The law seeks to limit or restrict reform-minded prosecutors. In the case of Fulton County — which includes Atlanta — though, District Attorney Fani Willis is not even known as much of a reformer. Instead, Republican lawmakers set their sights on Willis for another reason: prosecuting the wrong person.

  • donut4ever@lemm.ee
    2021·
    1 year ago

    Lol. Bruh. She didn’t just indict him because she wanted to and for no reason, she had evidence of crimes committed by the dude and his monkeys. He was indicted by a grand jury. The “wrong person”? We are playing Mafia now? Wtf

      • donut4ever@lemm.ee
        41·
        1 year ago

        LOL. Tell them that downvotes and upvotes don’t mean shit here on lemmy. They can take that dystopian bullshit back to reddit.

          • donut4ever@lemm.ee
            3·
            1 year ago

            I think they have zero power here. You can even hide them if you want on some apps. Only thing I can think of is that they show how many people didn’t like what you said. That’s about it.

              • bdiddy@lemmy.oneEnglish
                41·
                1 year ago

                down votes take you down the chain in reddit so you can basically be downvoted to where no one would see what you wrote. If they had a brigade they could take you out of a conversation

                • billy_bollocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Yea I was aware of the up/downvote ranking system they used. I guess I just didn’t care enough for it to matter to me. Thanks for the heads up regardless

              • donut4ever@lemm.ee
                1·
                1 year ago

                I thought that people wouldn’t be able to post anymore when they hit the negative, but that was kind of a rarity. Also, people there used that shit out of spite at times.

            • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
              1·
              1 year ago

              My instance doesn’t allow or federate downvotes lol

              If I post something that ruffles loads of feathers, I’d never know unless someone challenged or opened my eyes to an alternative view… because my instance only shows me the upvotes 😅

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.oneEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Yes they are. Kemp seems to have had all sorts of tricks up his sleeve to suppress voters. This “no you can’t prosecute our people” committee is no great surprise to me.

      The GOP will stop at nothing to ensure they can do whatever the fuck they want. Across the board in every way they can imagine they threaten to further degrade and eventually destroy democracy. For them, Russia is a model of what they’re going for.

  • Ertebolle@kbin.social
    65·
    1 year ago

    They can’t even start accepting complaints under this new law until next July, then it’s a complicated process with two different panels of former prosecutors/judges, a number of whom are appointed by the not-particuarly-pro-Trump governor. It’ll definitely be used to punish prosecutors for not prosecuting drug/abortion/etc crimes the way they want them to, but it’s going to be too slow + indifferent + late to affect Willis.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    18·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know that they have the votes to actually do this, even if one guy on a Facebook post said he wanted to.

    If they did do it, the real question is how this duly elected official gets replaced. If it’s a special election I’d disagree with them doing it but at least the voters get representation. If it’s an appointment by the GovernornI think there are actual constitutional issues with the law since it denies the constituents the ability to elect their own DA…but that would also put a Republican in charge of the case so it seems plausible they would write it that way.

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Ron Desantis is running like a bulldozer over Florida, I hope the federal government would step in. They seem to be trying to take a hands off approach and letting it sort out. I’m not sure that’s a great approach as we watch our states get taken over by fascists. This happened after the civil war so I guess there’s a chance we can get it back? That took a long time though.

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Thing is, federal govt can’t just waltz in and take over state govt. That’s now how it works. And probably with good reason. Imagine if the GOP could take over at the federal level and force states like Colorado to ban abortion (which yes wouldn’t be a problem if we had codified abortion protection into law at the federal level and also hadn’t had GOP denying Obama a SCOTUS appointment ), or banning same sex marriage or myriad other things.

  • JoJoGAH@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    GOP is grasping at straws in Tennessee too, for all to see. Justin Pearson, previously censured, posts reels of every nefarious act they try. It bears watching and supporting.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    Thats right Georgia. Republicans have told you who to vote for if you want your independence and freedom. Michigan just recently realized this.

  • Railing5132@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    These asshats couldn’t be more transparent, cartoon-villanish characters if they tried. Fuck them in the neck with a screwdriver. Voting for these assholes is a vote for dismantling democracy.

  • SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    LOL! Well, I guess they’re actively looking to get killed. What, you think we’ll turn a blind eye to this shit, you hitler-esuqe dirtbags?

  • Riccosuave@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    We already know from Pudding Rob’s actions in Florida that these kind of laws are going to be used to:

    • Allow the executive or legislative branches to override the judiciary, thereby functionally eliminating the separation of powers

    • Override democracy by removing duly elected officials at the sole discretion of one person (Florida), or by another unelected body (Georgia)

    • Create a legal fiefdom where the executive or legislative branches can determine the outcome of judicial matters through sheer fiat by removing prosecutors who do not align with their intended outcomes, and then hand selecting those who do

    Party of “Law and Order” my fucking ass…

      • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Now now, it’s more general than that. In between shooting black people, they also love to use their laws on other things they don’t like, such as other people’s abortions (not their own, mind you – that’s different), LGBT people, and immigrants (especially scary turban men).

            • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              Coincidentally, they also like to make sure black people are poor.

              I seriously don’t understand the folks who don’t get this.

              First we had slaves.

              Well, they say, US slavery ended with the civil war.

              Even IF it were reasonable to say that slavery ended, and therefore the ripples it sent forward in time aren’t still being felt, there are two things that are true - One: We didn’t root out those who most staunchly refused to relinquish it and enact power structures to encourage equity going forward.

              Well, they say, the confederate states were physically and economically destroyed by the end of the war.

              And to that I say, “Andrew Johnson.”

              Two: We as a nation enacted laws and social norms that turned black folks into a permanent underclass, and have been dogwhistling about it for a century.

              Well, they say, No we didn’t.

              Yes, we did. Jim Crow, separate but equal, the origin of most controversial confederate monuments and statues, the very existence of Sundown Towns, and The Negro Motorist’s Green Book, the foundation of the State of Oregon, and events such as the Tulsa race massacre, are all factual details about our country.

              These inflection points on our nation’s psyche persisted at least through the passage of the civil rights act, and some feel Sundown Towns exist even today. These laws and social norms influenced legislative policy, police and justice department culture, and generations of Americans both white and black people.

              How one can acknowledge all that and not be impressed at the degree to which African-Americans have succeeded, and also humbled by how they have been wronged, held back, and live to this day in a system founded on excluding them is beyond me. But more importantly than that, to deny that there is still an impact seems willfully ignorant.

              Sorry for the rant. I didn’t set out to write it, but there it is.

      • StarServal@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Law and order is, and was always, just another tool in their arsenal to be used against their opponents. It has never been about fairness or justice to them.