Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sent a scathing response to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Thursday, arguing that he was interfering with her prosecution of former President Donald Trump through his records requests.
She made a number of points similar to those Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had made to Jordan in March about his prosecution of Trump, saying Jordan was abusing his congressional power by inquiring about Georgia criminal matters.
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“Your attempt to invoke congressional authority to intrude upon and interfere with an active criminal case in Georgia is flagrantly at odds with the Constitution,” Willis wrote, noting that his “violation of Georgia’s sovereignty is offensive and will not stand.”
Willis’s letter comes in response to Jordan asking Willis last month to provide him with documents and other records related to her indictment of Trump.
Jordan said there are several points of federal interest in the case, including how it relates to the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause; how it affects Trump, who has federal benefits because of his presidency, such as Secret Service; how it affects and will potentially interfere with the 2024 presidential election, in which Trump is the 2024 GOP front-runner; how Willis’s office has used federal funds; and how she may have coordinated with special counsel Jack Smith.
Willis said Jordan’s communication to her “offends principles of state sovereignty,” violates the separation of powers, and “improperly interferes with the administration of criminal justice.”
The district attorney claimed that the Constitution “clearly permits [her] to ignore” Jordan’s “unjustified and illegal intrusion” on her prosecution but went on to provide a “voluntary” response to the chairman.
She made a number of feisty remarks, including instructing him to “deal with some basic realities” about how a grand jury operates and directing him “as a non-member of the bar” to purchase a book about racketeering violations, with which she has charged Trump.
Jordan graduated from law school but did not take the bar exam.
The district attorney also accused him of “lack[ing] a basic understanding of the law” and included in her letter “suggestions for productive activity” for Jordan’s committee.
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She at one point used Jordan’s words against him, saying his letter “calls to mind” the letter Jordan wrote to the Jan. 6 select committee last year arguing that its subpoena to Jordan was an “unprecedented action” that “serves no legitimate legislative purpose.” Jordan had fought the subpoena, and the committee dropped its pursuit of him.
Read Willis’s full letter below:
