Georgia officials didn’t follow ethical, legal rules in Trump indictment

Georgia officials didn’t follow ethical, legal rules in Trump indictment

A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, failed to properly follow the precedent set by the state Supreme Court in allowing the county’s top prosecutor to go forward with a grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump after disqualifying the prosecutor from part of the probe for misbehavior.

A DEMONcratic DA not following the rules?  What a surprise!

On July 25, 2022, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney disqualified Willis from continuing to target then-state Sen. Burt Jones as part of her grand jury investigation. Jones, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia at the time, went on to be elected in November.

Why does this matter?

As McBurney outlined in his disqualification order, Willis “hosted and headlined a fundraiser” for Charles Bailey, the Democratic candidate opposing Jones, at a time when “media coverage of the grand jury proceedings was national and non-stop and the District Attorney was the very public face of those proceedings.” Willis, the Superior Court judge wrote, “pledged her name, likeness, and office” to help Jones’ opponent at the same time she was targeting Jones and “publicly (in her pleadings) labeled Senator Jones a ‘target’ of the grand jury’s investigation.”

This created a “plain — and actual and untenable — conflict,” McBurney wrote, since any decision Willis made about Jones “in connection with the grand jury is necessarily infected by it.”

Politically targeting your opponents within the justice system is exactly what these DEMoncrats are doing.

As a result, McBurney quite properly disqualified Willis and her entire office from targeting Jones in any way with the Fulton County grand jury, including no longer publicly categorizing him “as a subject or target of the grand jury’s investigation.”

But….

But here’s the problem. Under the holding of a 2014 decision by the Georgia Supreme Court… McBurney should have disqualified Willis and every prosecutor in her office from the entire grand jury investigation of Trump and all of the other codefendants who have been indicted, including the other contingent electors.

And that is something that IMO still needs to happen, as clearly this is politically motived, specifically targeted, and is without a doubt a conflict of interests.

In the Trump case, Willis convened a “single purpose grand jury” to investigate one specific subject…

The political opposition and lead candidate to be the new/next POTUS.

The state Supreme Court’s McLaughlin decision explains that when a prosecutor is found to have a personal interest in a case that is grounds for disqualification, then that prosecutor and the prosecutor’s entire office are disqualified from the entirety of the proceedings. That personal interest—in fact, a partisan, political interest—is exactly what McBurney found when he disqualified Willis and the entire Fulton County District Attorney’s Office from targeting Burt Jones. But Willis and her office should have been disqualified from continuing the grand jury investigation as a whole, not just against one target.

Then why not apply they rules here as well?

Disqualifying Willis, given her personal conflict of interest in attempting to lend her name and office’s credibility to help Jones’s Democrat opponents while targeting Jones as part of this alleged interlocking conspiracy, should have led to her disqualification—and all of the lawyers in her office—from the entire grand jury investigation.

Should have, and still should be.

McBurney made the broad assertion that a prosecutor who pursues an investigation into possible electoral wrongdoing “is not automatically biased and partisan—and subject to disqualification—because of the common political affiliations of the subjects (and targets) of the investigation.”

But no one had claimed that Willis should be disqualified because she is a Democrat and all of her targets are Republicans. McBurney himself found that Willis had an “obvious and irreconcilable” conflict of interest that called her objectivity and the legitimacy of the grand jury investigation into question. Yet McBurney failed to address this.

But asking questions about the election and such, and you are fair game to an over zealous DA and their political ambitions.

This shocking hypocrisy is just more evidence of Willis’ politically biased behavior.

All of this should raise great concern among Georgians, who may be victimized by such an attack on basic First Amendment activities, and in the state Legislature, which is supposed to ensure that the state’s justice system is fair and honest and not used as a political weapon.

But then we always hear the fail claim, that this was an attack on democracy (by asking serious questions), and that preventing your opponent from running is election interference and is an attack on democracy (allowing the people to decide).

There was so much evidence that the election was NOT 100% safe, 100% error free, election observers being removed and unexplained boxes of ballots mysteriously found and counted to tip the scales in certain ridings, showed that there was fraud.  And while not the mass scale fraud the media always tells you never happened, but many smaller scale frauds in just the right/targeted areas…

And the legacy media claims that such was never proven in court has nothing to do with the fact every court REFUSE to even consider the evidence that something was amiss.

If, as the claims go, that this was the most fair secure elections ever, then they should have had no worry about having the people see the evidence of possible wrongs and legally make a judgement on the facts/evidence.

But NO.  If there see no EVIL, then logically there is no EVIL.  So if they see no EVIDENCE of election fraud, then there is no MASS election fraud (let alone specific instances of election fraud).

So to politically indict someone who, being told of all this evidence of possible election fraud and asking questions and wanting answers, is criminally wrong?!?

Their attacking Trump has been going on for what?  A whole decade?  With debunked hoaxes (Russian Dossier) to being acquitted twice on politically motived charges and to not finding anything close to criminal misconduct (just smart accounting – using the laws as written as any business owner would), etc.