With the rough professional blows Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis endured to kick off the month of December, things can only get better from here.
Earlier this week, a Georgia judge ordered Willis to fork over any communications she may have with special counsel Jack Smith—or the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee—to a conservative watchdog group.
According to The Hill, Judicial Watch filed a suit after Willis said she doesn’t have responsive records to the request. Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney ultimately ordered Willis to turn over any records, saying she violated the law by not appropriately responding to Judicial Watch’s suit.
Willis must produce any relevant records and pay attorney fees. The suit from Judicial Watch is following in the footsteps of the House Judiciary Committee, which sent letters to both Willis and Smith demanding they turn over all records of their prosecution and if they talked about the case.
This revelation occurred right around the same time that the long-running racketeering trial against YSL, the Atlanta rap label that prosecutors claimed doubled as a violent street gang led by Young Thug, finally ended.
Though Atlanta emcee Young Thug to pleaded guilty in October, the trial was still ongoing. Per the New York Times, the final two defendants—Deamonte Kendrick and Shannon Stillwell—were found not guilty on numerous charges ranging from gun possession to murder.
The verdicts were considered a huge setback for Willis on Tuesday (Dec. 3), as detractors critiqued her use of Georgia’s anti-racketeering law—the same law she used to bring charges against President-elect Donald Trump for his trying to overturn the 2020 election.
“We always respect the verdict of a jury,” said Jeff DiSantis, a spokesperson for Willis, according to Associated Press referring to the YSL trial concluding.
As for Willis’ case against Trump, its future remains uncertain. Special Counsel Jack Smith filed briefs to dismiss the case over election interference after the election. This is due to the Department of Justice forbidding the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting president.