Donald Trump has praised Georgia Republicans after they were able to push through a bill that would target “rogue prosecutors” as Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis considers bringing forward criminal charges over the 2020 presidential elections against the former president.
On Thursday, the Georgia Senate voted 32-24 to pass Senate Bill 92, sponsored by state Senator Randy Robertson, which would see the creation of an oversight committee with the power to remove elected district attorneys if they are found to have committed “willful misconduct” in office, or failed to prosecute certain crimes.
Willis has noted the timing of the bills as her investigation into Trump draws to a close. “For the hundreds of years we’ve had prosecutors, this has been unnecessary,” Willis told The New York Times. “But now all of a sudden this is a priority. And it is racist.”
Trump wrote; “This is a great development for Georgia, but also other parts of the Country. Congratulations to the Georgia Legislature for having the courage to act boldly, fairly, and fast.”
“It’s targeting me, and maybe people with similar ideologies, and wanting to replace it for ideologies that don’t represent the majority of the state’s population,” Willis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It seems to me that what they’re really saying is that there should be local control until we don’t like who the locals choose.”
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