House Republicans continue Fani Willis investigation, requesting documents from DA employees

Rep. Jim Jordan, GOP seat of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., sent employees from the Fulton County District Attorney's bureau requests Thursday to manus implicit documents and interviews related to the Jan. 6 Committee arsenic they proceed investigating District Attorney Fani Willis. 

"The committee antecedently wrote to District Attorney Willis requesting documents relating to her coordination with the January 6 Select Committee. Because District Attorney Willis has declined to cooperate, the committee indispensable prosecute different avenues to get this information," a property merchandise states. 

Jordan and Loudermilk sent letters to Assistant Chief Investigator Michael Hill, Assistant Chief Investigator Trina Swanson-Lucas, Chief Senior District Attorney Donald Wakeford and Deputy District Attorney Will Wooten, requesting "all documents and communications" betwixt the employees and "any member, unit member, agent, oregon typical of the January 6 Selection Committee." 

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The letters besides petition the employees manus implicit "all documents and communications referring oregon relating to records successful your possession obtained" from the Jan. 6 Committee. 

GOP House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Rep. Barry Loudermilk sent Fulton County District Attorney employees letters Thursday, requesting documents and interviews arsenic portion of their probe into DA Fani Willis.  (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

All employees were asked to taxable the requested documentation nary aboriginal than Feb. 20. 

The letters sent Thursday accidental the lawmakers had antecedently written to Willis "requesting documents relating to her coordination with the January 6 Select Committee."

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The lawmakers accidental they received a missive from Willis successful December successful which she confirmed the requested documents existed "but declined to nutrient specified materials connected the grounds that the materials were 'protected from disclosure by attorney-client privilege, enactment merchandise privilege, and different communal instrumentality protections.'"

Willis was investigating Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination successful the authorities of Georgia.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The DA's bureau asserted the aforesaid assertion successful a tribunal filing that aforesaid period erstwhile it declined to crook implicit immoderate caller communications betwixt Willis and peculiar counsel Jack Smith, who had besides been investigating alleged efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The filing asserted that the documents either did not beryllium oregon were exempt from disclosure nether Georgia law.

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had antecedently ordered Willis to nutrient immoderate records of connection with either Smith oregon the House Select Committee connected Jan. 6 wrong 5 concern days. In doing so, the justice sided with Judicial Watch, a blimpish ineligible radical that had filed suit against Willis, determining that Willis had violated the state’s unfastened records enactment by failing to respond to the lawsuit. 

The letters sent Thursday accidental the lawmakers had antecedently written to Willis "requesting documents relating to her coordination with the January 6 Select Committee." (Alyssa Pointer/Pool/Getty Images)

The House Judiciary Committee launched its probe into whether Willis coordinated with the House Jan. 6 Committee successful December 2023. Jordan and Loudermilk took the pb connected the probe aft learning that Willis’ bureau "coordinated its investigative actions with the partisan Select Committee."

The lawmakers said astatine the clip that Willis asked the House Select Committee connected Jan. 6 to stock grounds with her office.

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Willis charged Trump with 1 number of usurpation of the Georgia RICO Act, 3 counts of transgression solicitation, six counts of transgression conspiracy, 1 number of filing mendacious documents and 2 counts of making mendacious statements. 

Trump pleaded not blameworthy to each counts.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Hill, Swanson-Lucas, Wakeford, Wooten and the DA's Office but did not instantly perceive back. 

Fox News Digital's Breanne Deppisch and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.