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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has been prosecuting former President Donald Trump in Georgia, just got slapped with a subpoena.
The subpoena was issued by the Republican-dominated Senate Special Committee on Investigations and the district attorney has challenged it, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The issue is whether or not the Senate has the authority to force her to testify as it pertains to her investigation into the former president.
Former Gov. Roy Barnes, the personal attorney for Willis, is presenting her case and contends that the Senate does not have that authority.
But Republican State Sen. Bill Cowsert said he believes that the chamber does have that authority.
“The legislative branch has the inherent power to investigate and to utilize subpoenas,” he said.
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The committee was established this year when the former president and some of his codefendants sought to have the district attorney removed from the case because of her affair with top prosecutor Nathan Wade.
The district attorney and Wade have maintained that their…
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