Fani Willis Responds To Jordan’s Demand For Docs After Con­tempt Threat

Georgia’s Ful­ton Coun­ty Dis­trict Attor­ney Fani Willis, who is lead­ing a 2020 elec­tion inter­fer­ence case against for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and his allies, issued a com­bat­ive response to House Judi­cia­ry Chair­man Jim Jor­dan (R‑OH) this week in a clash over doc­u­ments.
The pros­e­cu­tor sent Jor­dan a let­ter on Mon­day say­ing that she “cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly” reject­ed the chairman’s asser­tion that her office has not suf­fi­cient­ly respond­ed to his sub­poe­na from ear­ly Feb­ru­ary.
“As you note in your let­ter, we have already pro­vid­ed you with sub­stan­tial infor­ma­tion about our pro­grams that are fund­ed via fed­er­al grants,” Willis said, accord­ing to a copy of the let­ter post­ed to X by CNN reporter Zachary Cohen.
Jor­dan issued the sub­poe­na after the Wash­ing­ton Free Bea­con pub­lished audio of an employ­ee telling Willis about the poten­tial mis­use of fed­er­al funds weeks before the work­er was fired. Willis has reject­ed sug­ges­tions of wrong­do­ing.
The chair­man fol­lowed up with a let­ter to Willis two weeks ago that acknowl­edged the DA did pro­duce some records, but demand­ed she ful­ly com­ply with doc­u­ment reques …