Ever since she made the ill-fated decision to criminally pursue President Donald Trump, Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has encountered nothing but trouble.
Now, the Georgia Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments regarding whether the Republican-led state Senate has the power to subpoena Willis.
State senators are seeking to grill Willis, a career Democrat, regarding her prosecution of the now-president, as the Washington Examiner reports.
The state’s high court revealed last week that it would entertain an appeal of a lower court decision made in December.
The lower court’s ruling determined that Willis could indeed be subpoenaed by the state Senate Special Committee on investigations.
Willis has disputed the notion that the panel can subpoena her for testimony and document production related to her politically motivated case against Trump.
According to Willis, the committee lacks the necessary authority to enforce such a subpoena against her.
She also claims that the panel’s requests were impermissibly broad.
Unfortunately for the beleaguered prosecutor, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram determined late last year that the committee did indeed possess the authority to demand her compliance.
The Georgia high court is slated to hear oral arguments from the parties in October.
A decision will follow at a later date.
Her lower court loss on the subpoena issue is far from the only serious setback Willis has suffered in recent months.
It was also late last year that an appeals court in the state disqualified her from further involvement in the case against Trump due to her previously undisclosed romantic ties to the lead prosecutor she had hand-picked to handle the matter.
The high court is still considering whether to accept Willis’s appeal of the disqualification.
As of now, however, the case against Trump is likely going nowhere.
Another county D.A. would have to begin the prosecution from scratch.
Yet, this is a tall order few are likely to accept.
As the Associated Press reported, a judge back in March ordered Willis to pay over $54,000 in attorneys’ fees.
She was also ordered to produce a host of requested documents amid a finding that her office ran afoul of the Georgia Open Records Act in connection with the Trump case.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause labeled Willis’s conduct “intentional, not done in good faith, and…substantially groundless and vexatious.”
Though Willis was re-elected to her role in November, her conduct concerning Trump has yielded no end of trouble for her, both personally and professionally.
Some are even demanding her disbarment.
Regardless of how the Georgia Supreme Court rules in her latest controversy, it is far from certain that Willis’s career will ever fully recover from her ill-fated “get-Trump” caper.
