佐治亚州的一名法官命令富尔顿县地方检察官范尼·威利斯交出特别顾问杰克·史密斯或美国众议院特别委员会关于1月6日袭击的任何记录，此前一个保守的法律团体提起诉讼，寻求与地方检察官2020年有关的文件选举干预案.
该命令是在保守的非营利组织司法观察(Judicial Watch)3月提起诉讼后发出的，该组织在富尔顿县声称没有从特别检察官办公室或众议院特别委员会获得任何回应记录后起诉了威利斯。
富尔顿县高等法院法官罗伯特·麦克伯尼(Robert McBurney)周一下令威利斯在五个工作日内拿出任何记录，并认定她未能回应诉讼，违反了该州的《公开记录法》(open records act)。
法官麦克伯尼缺席判决，因为威利斯未能作出“有价值的辩护”，而是声称她没有得到适当的服务。
“因此，原告有权获得缺席判决，就好像诉状的每一项和每一段都有适当和充分的证据支持一样。在这里，这意味着原告已经确定，被告违反了ORA，既没有交出响应记录，也没有通知原告她决定保留部分或全部此类记录，”麦克伯尼的决定说，该决定命令威利斯交出任何记录，并支付司法观察的律师费。
唐纳德·特朗普和其他18人在去年的一次庭审中对所有指控均不认罪全面的敲诈勒索起诉涉嫌试图推翻佐治亚州2020年总统选举的结果。四名被告随后接受了认罪协议，以换取同意指证其他被告。
史密斯之前对特朗普提起了联邦选举干涉和机密文件案件这两起案件都被驳回由于总统豁免权，继特朗普上个月连任后。
特朗普的法律团队已经根据威利斯2021年12月给当时的委员会主席本尼·汤普森的一封信，寻求威利斯和众议院特别委员会之间的任何通信，寻求“访问可能与我们的调查有关的记录”。
在1月份的法庭听证会上，富尔顿县地方检察官办公室的律师证实，他们已经从该委员会出示了任何相关记录，或者这些记录已经公开。
据前检察官内森·韦德(Nathan Wade)说，检察官们在1月6日会见了委员会，但“没有共享有形的文件。'
特朗普在佐治亚州的刑事案件暂停，此前特朗普和他的共同被告试图让威利斯因与韦德的关系而被取消资格。
富尔顿县法官斯科特·麦卡菲(Scott McAfee)拒绝取消威利斯的资格，但随着特朗普和他的共同被告对这一决定提出上诉，该案已经暂停。
上诉的口头辩论原定于12月5日，但被推迟了意外取消上个月没有解释。
Fulton County DA ordered to turn over election probe records to watchdog group
A judge in Georgia ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to turn over any records from special counsel Jack Smith or U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack following a lawsuit from a conservative legal group seeking documents related to the DA's 2020election interference case.
The order follows a March lawsuit from the conservative nonprofit group Judicial Watch, which sued Willis after Fulton County claimed it did not have any responsive records from either the special counsel's office or House Select Committee.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Monday ordered Willis to produce any records within five business days and determined that she violated the state's open records act by failing to respond to the lawsuit.
Judge McBurney granted judgement by default because Willis failed to make a "meritorious defense" and instead claimed she hadn't been properly served.
"Plaintiff is thus entitled to judgment by default as if every item and paragraph of the complaint were supported by proper and sufficient evidence. Here, this means Plaintiff has established that Defendant violated the ORA by failing to either turn over responsive records or else notify Plaintiff of her decision to withhold some or all such records," said McBurney's decision, which ordered Willis to turn over any records and pay the attorney's fees for Judicial Watch.
Donald Trump and 18 others pleaded not guilty last year to all charges in asweeping racketeering indictmentfor alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. Four defendants subsequently took plea deals in exchange for agreeing to testify against other defendants.
Smith brought the federal election interference and classified documents cases against Trump beforeboth cases were dismisseddue to presidential immunity, following Trump's reelection last month.
Trump's legal team already sought any communications between Willis and the House Select Committee based on a December 2021 letter from Willis to then-committee Chairman Bennie Thompson seeking "access to records that may be relevant to our investigation."
During a January court hearing, attorneys for the Fulton County district attorney's office confirmed that they had produced any relevant records from the committee or the records were already public.
According to former prosecutor Nathan Wade, prosecutors met with the Jan. 6 committee, but that "there was no sharing of tangible documents.'
Trump's criminal case in Georgia is on pause after Trump and his co-defendants launched an effort to have Willis disqualified from the case over her relationship with Wade.
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee declined to disqualify Willis, but the case has been paused as Trump and his co-defendants appeal the decision.
An oral argument for the appeal was initially scheduled for Dec. 5, but wasunexpectedly canceledlast month without explanation.
