A Georgia state senator has called for an emergency session to review the actions of the prosecutor behind former President Donald Trump’s latest indictment and possibly move toward her impeachment.
“As a Georgia State Senator, I am officially calling for an emergency session to review the actions of Fani Willis,” Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore, a Republican, announced on X early Thursday morning.
“America is under attack. I’m not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET political opponents,” he added.
Look:
As a Georgia State Senator, I am officially calling for an emergency session to review the actions of Fani Willis.
America is under attack. I’m not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET political opponents. pic.twitter.com/gpzg2l5uIU
— Sen. Colton Moore (@realColtonMoore) August 17, 2023
Attached to the tweet was a copy of a letter he submitted to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican.
“We, the undersigned, being duly elected members of the Georgia House of Representatives and Georgia Senate, and comprising 3/5 of each respective house, pursuant to Article IV, Section II, Paragraph VII(b), hereby certify to you, in writing, with a copy to the Secretary of State, that in our opinion an emergency exists in the affairs of the state, requiring a special session to be convened under that section, for all purposes, to include, without limitation, the review and response to the actions of Fani Willis,” the letter reads.
Willis is the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, and on Monday she unveiled a blistering indictment against Trump accusing him of partaking in a massive RICO-related conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The problem with the indictment, critics say, is that Trump did nothing wrong — or, at the very least, certainly nothing different than what Democrats have done in the past.
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz explained as much in a Daily Mail column, writing that “electoral challenges have long been part of American history” but are “only now … being criminalized” because of the name of the man currently involved: Donald J. Trump.
“I was one of the lawyers involved in objections to Florida’s presidential vote in 2000. A margin of less than 600 ballots determined that Governor George W. Bush rather than Vice President Al Gore won the state and, thus, the electoral college vote,” he wrote.
“I was convinced then and I am convinced now that this result was wrong. No one was indicted, disbarred, disciplined or even much criticized for those efforts,” he added.
Conversely, Trump and 18 other defendants — including his legal team — have been charged with a myriad of crimes, including election fraud, conspiracy, racketeering and more, and now face decades in prison.
Dershowitz: Al Gore, his legal team and I tried to find uncounted presidential votes, lobbied officials and fought in courts in 2000https://t.co/Ww0H6Xtjk4
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) August 17, 2023
Dershowitz isn’t the only one who’s cried foul over the indictment. So has Reason magazine assistant editor Joe Lancaster, who wrote on Wednesday that Willis “is abusing Georgia’s terrible RICO law” in her witch-hunt against Trump.
“RICO statutes allow prosecutors to bring charges using guilt by association. Kerry Martin wrote in the Michigan Journal of Race & Law that RICO ‘is not supposed to criminalize mere membership in a gang, but it comes dangerously close to doing so.’ Georgia’s [own RICO] statute is even worse,” he wrote.
“Georgia’s RICO law is even more expansive than its federal counterpart—for example, it does not require multiple defendants or an extended timeline to establish a conspiracy. Former prosecutor Chris Timmons told ABC News, ‘Somebody could go to JC Penney, shoplift a pair of socks, walk next door to Sears and shoplift a second pair of socks, and they can be charged with RICO,'” he added.
It’s through the use of the RICO law that Willis has managed to ensnare so many extra people, including former Trump administration official Mark Meadows.
The good news for Meadows is that a federal judge agreed on Wednesday to consider a request by him to have his case moved from Fulton County, which is a far-left jurisdiction, and into federal court.
“Mr. Meadows is entitled to remove this action to federal court because the charges against him plausibly give rise to a federal defense based on his role at all relevant times as the White House Chief of Staff to the President of the United States,” his attorneys wrote in a Tuesday court filing, according to Axios.
But this is also good news for Trump as well.
Indeed, “Trump is also expected to mount a similar effort, according to sources familiar with the matter,” according to ABC News.
And if the request is approved, the former president may just be able to beat this particular set of charges …
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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