The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP Will Seek to DISQUALIFY Fani Willis under Georgia Law to Help Trump

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Starting point is 00:02:05 It's called SB92 was the bill that was signed into law. And what it creates is an eight-person prosecuting attorneys statewide qualification commission. It's an eight-person panel. The panel's called the Prosecuting Attorney Statewide Qualification Commission. It's an eight-person panel. The panel's called the Prosecuting Attorney Statewide Qualification Commission, commission made up of eight people. Five of them are investigators on the panel. Three form a hearing board, and ultimately, the hearing board can decide to remove a district attorney, remove a state prosecutor for a period of 10 years

Starting point is 00:02:50 if the qualifications are met. The bill that was just signed into law has been challenged by numerous prosecutors who are the ones being targeted by Republicans in the passage of this bill. So there is litigation trying to block it from going into effect, but it's been signed into law. It will go into effect in October, where some of these complaints will become ripe, and then it will be for the courts to decide whether this law was constitutional or not constitutional. We'll get into the intricacies of this law in just a moment, but here is what MAGA Republican State Senator Clint Dixon posted on his Facebook earlier in the week. He says, like you, I'm frustrated by the Fulton County indictments

Starting point is 00:03:46 handed down last week. This is clearly all about Fannie Willis and her unabashed goal to become some sort of leftist celebrity. While some have called for a special session, that's not a legitimate option to hold her accountable. There is no legal action that the legislature can take to stop Fannie Willis's bad behavior. The legislature does not have control over her office or funding. And even if the legislature was empowered to act, calling a special session requires three-fifths of the legislature, meaning Democrats would have to go on the record in opposition of their aspiring superstar. This reality is one of the reasons we passed a law this year to hold rogue district attorneys accountable. Once the prosecutorial oversight

Starting point is 00:04:34 committee is appointed in October, we can have them investigate and take action against Fannie Willis and her efforts that weaponize the justice system against political opponents. This is our best measure. I will be ready to call for that investigation. And then he posted on his social media account again saying, this week I called on Fulton DA to be investigated through the appropriate process. She should be focused on the 250 accused murderers in the Fulton jail, not political theater. She is focused on that, and she's also focused as a law and order prosecutor in a criminal enterprise within her county trying to overthrow a free and fair election. This is the MAGA Republican playbook.

Starting point is 00:05:27 We see Ron DeSantis utilizing it in Florida where he is suspending prosecutors under provisions in Florida. And here, if MAGA Republicans don't like the outcome, they'll gerrymander districts, they'll fire duly elected prosecutors. These are prosecutors elected by their constituents in Republican states. They'll just create a commission to come up with some pretext to fire people saying, oh, this prosecutor is too woke, or this prosecutor is this or that. The ultimate irony behind this, and there's a lot, but when this SB92 was passed, the idea was that the MAGA Republicans were claiming, oh, these prosecutors that they're targeting, what they call these liberal lefty prosecutors, are not prosecuting enough. But now

Starting point is 00:06:22 they're basically saying, well, Fulton County District Attorney Fonny Willis, she's prosecuting enough. But now they're basically saying, well, Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, she's prosecuting cases we don't want her to prosecute, that we don't want prosecutors to focus on. So very quickly, the clear intention behind this bill that was signed into law back in May by Brian Kemp has been exposed. It's just Republicans who want to rig the game, change the rules, so that even when they lose, they can control what is going on and frankly destroy democracy within their states and their areas of control. It's completely the opposite of what democracy is supposed to be. I'm sure you've heard a lot about SB 92, but let's just take a look at the actual statute. So let's go to the source documents so there's no confusion about what it is. So we pull it open right here, SB 92. Let's take a look at the current version that was signed into law.

Starting point is 00:07:28 And it is a bill to be entitled, an act. And it is amending Chapter 18 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia relating to the appointment duties, responsibilities of prosecuting attorneys. And again, I want to be clear, these district attorneys are elected by their constituents, their elected officials who their constituents want to represent them. And now the Republicans in Congress in Georgia and the Republican governor in Georgia basically said, the Republican governor will appoint this commission of eight people, five investigators,

Starting point is 00:08:12 three who will be hearing matters, and they get to decide if they want to just remove these prosecutors and what are the grounds for removal. So let's go into the statute. It's important, again, that we go to the source documents. Your pets are a member of the family. Don't feed them like they're in the doghouse. Give them NumNum. NumNum delivers fresh dog food with every portion personalized to your dog's needs so you can bring out their best. NumNum's made with real whole food you can see and recognize without any additives or fillers that contribute to bloating and low energy. That's because NumNum uses the latest science and insights to make real good

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Starting point is 00:09:49 be grounds for discipline of a district attorney or solicitor general or for his or her removal or involuntary retirement from office. One, mental or physical incapacity interfering with the performance of his or her duties, which is or is likely to become permanent. Okay, that seems to make sense, mental or physical incapacity. Two, willful misconduct in office. Well, I need to know how that's defined, but someone engages in willful misconduct. Seems to be, we'd all agree that we wouldn't want a prosecutor who's engaged in willful misconduct. Three, with respect to district attorneys' willful and persistent failure to carry out duties pursuant to Georgia law. Okay, well, what does that necessarily mean and who's making that determination?

Starting point is 00:10:36 It's starting to get a little bit more suspect, this law, because prosecutors can exercise prosecutorial discretion. So is it what the Republican commission wants a prosecutor to go after? And you can think about that, especially as we talk about, you know, these really offensive and despicable laws that control how a woman makes reproductive care decisions over her body, you can imagine these Republican commissions saying, okay, well, you're not prosecuting the women. You're not prosecuting their doctors. We're going to remove you and appoint someone who does that. And they'll say that was willful and persistent failure. And whereas a prosecutor says, I'm not going to

Starting point is 00:11:21 prosecute that. I'm exercising my discretion. Four, with respect to solicitor generals, willful and persistent failure to carry out duties. Five, conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude. Okay, I'm fine with removing a prosecutor who engrages an act of moral turpitude. Six, conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, which brings the office into disrepute. So that's the trick one right there, right? Conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, which brings the office into disrepute or knowingly authorizing or permitting an assistant district attorney or assistant solicitor general to commit any act constituting grounds for removal under paragraphs one through six of this subsection.

Starting point is 00:12:12 And six, again, I just read, which is bringing the office into disrepute. What a vague standard. So what the MAGA Republicans will say as it relates to Fawnie Willis and what they'll say as it relates to other prosecutors that they don't like. By you bringing this, this is what MAGA Republican Senator Dixon's going to say, you have brought the office into disrepute by prosecuting this action. And now we see how that's being implemented with the fact that you have this MAGA Republican state senator, Clint Dixon, saying this is exactly, precisely what he is going to be doing. that it was trying to target very specifically was like they had in mind that they wanted to go after the district attorney from Oconee County, who they saw as a liberal prosecutor, again, who was elected by her constituents,

Starting point is 00:13:24 but they wanted to go after her. They wanted to go after Fulton County District Attorney Fawnie Willis, in addition to the district attorney from Oconee County. And just so you get a sense of what Fulton County District Attorney Fawnie Willis is saying in response, she goes, this measure is racist. And she says, I'm tired and I'm just going to call how I see it. What happened was in 2020, you had minority district attorneys increased from five to 14 in 2020. And she says, I quite frankly think the legislation's racist. I don't know what other thing to call it. She told the Senate panel earlier this year, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. So now what the MAGA Republicans

Starting point is 00:14:11 will do is they will invoke this. A commission is going to investigate it. And ultimately, a commission could have the power to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fawnie Willis. They're definitely going to try it. I think that it is going to become so transparently obvious what they're doing. And again, it's not going to happen right away. If you think about it too, we have Ken Chesbrough, one of the co-defendants, is asking for a trial in October. Fawnie Willis is asking for a trial in October. Foney Willis is asking for a trial in March of 2024. And so if this trial happens in the next kind of year to 18 months, I think the prosecutions will take place before the commission can even go through its process and develop the evidence that it needs to kind of make the pretextual finding that I think it's going to make. But I want to be clear, this is

Starting point is 00:15:05 what they're going to try. This is what the Republicans' plan and scheme is. And as David Pepper of Ohio said in his book, Laboratories of Autocracy, this is another tool that the MAGA Republicans are adding to their toolkit in different states, which is they don't like the results, they don't like the prosecutors, they don't like the people. How do they create these laboratories of autocracy? Look, DeSantis is suspending prosecutors. Let's import that to Georgia. Oh, let's import that to Ohio. Let's import that to these other red states so that the will of the people can ultimately be suppressed. Now, am I worried that this is going to happen before the prosecution? I think it's going to come close. I think his co-defendants will start being

Starting point is 00:15:53 prosecuted and convicted first. I think they'll try it. There'll be some backlash to it. I think the way the law is written, I think there'll be an injunction. That's my own view. I think it'll be stayed because as I read to you the statute, you'll see that the standard is so unconstitutionally vague. What constitutes disrepute? Be an infringement on First Amendment rights. It'd be an infringement on a prosecutorial discretion. But who knows what the Georgia court system is ultimately going to do. But I wanted to give you that very comprehensive explanation of what SB 92 is, what it prohibits. It's an eight-person panel appointed by the Republican governor. So it's all going to be Republican people. It's going to be like

Starting point is 00:16:42 Republican district attorneys trying to kick out Democratic district attorneys in Democratic states by saying, oh, you're too woke or you're too lefty or you're too this or you're too that. Meanwhile, again, if you look at where is actually crime the highest, it's in red states and it's in red cities. I'm sick and tired of this BS narrative that MAGA Republicans want to keep spreading and that the media is all too eager to perpetuate. It's just not true. And we need to have honest, difficult, and detailed conversations about what's going on here. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network. Thank you for watching Now You Know About SB92. Go to MidasTouch.com for all of the updates of everything

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The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP Will Seek to DISQUALIFY Fani Willis under Georgia Law to Help Trump

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