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September 8, 2023

Fulton Cty. DA Requests Protection for Trump Grand Jurors, Calls Out Congressional Harassment
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In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked a
court to help protect members of the special grand jury that indicted
Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators for attempting to overturn the
results of the 2020 election, after a far-right website published their
home addresses, phone numbers and vehicle information. Willis, who is
Black, also had her information doxed online, alongside racist and
derogatory comments.

On Thursday, Willis sent a scathing letter to Congressmember Jim Jordan
of Ohio, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, after he
announced plans for a congressional probe into her prosecution of Trump
and his allies. Willis wrote, "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."


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