Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis (D) blasted Home Republicans for “politically motivated tactics” as a former prime prosecutor on the Jan 6 case appeared for a deposition with the Home Judiciary Committee.
Nathan Wade, a former particular prosecutor working alongside Willis on former President Trump’s election interference case, stepped down from his position after it was revealed the 2 had a private relationship.
Wade is the topic of simply one among many investigative threads launched by Home Republicans into the Georgia Trump case, together with one ignited in January when information broke that he and Willis had a romantic relationship.
Forward of Wade’s scheduled Tuesday testimony, a letter from Willis to each the committee and to Wade indicated her workplace opposed the sharing of any particulars in regards to the ongoing case.
“Questions about the substace of Mr. Wade’s work in the case would implicate information that is protected by the deliberative process privilege, attorney-client privilege, and work-product privilege, among others,” Willis wrote.
“Asking witnesses to share legally protected, non-public information about pending prosecutions may cause them to violate their confidentiality obligations under professional ethics rules. In addition, the release of this legally protected information may also prejudice defendants, victims, or witnesses, or affect the overall integrity of proceedings.”
The same letter to Wade famous that her workplace is “asserting all applicable legal protections and privileges over the information you obtained as a result of as Special Counsel to this Office.”
The committee responded on X asking, “What is she trying to hide?”
Wade appeared Tuesday morning flanked by his lawyer, former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, in addition to an lawyer from Willis’s workplace.
Home Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has launched a sequence of probes into the varied prosecutions of Trump, beforehand asking Willis and particular counsel Jack Smith to show over all paperwork and communications about their instances.
With Wade, Jordan has requested for particulars about his compensation, in addition to for any coordination he or the workplace might have had with figures on the Division of Justice.
Willis has persistently rebutted efforts by Jordan to realize entry to details about her investigation and case in opposition to Trump, which has been placed on pause.
In gentle of their romantic relationship, Wade resigned and Trump and others sued to take away Willis from the case. A Georgia decide allowed her to stay on the case, however an attraction has halted the case till December.
“I will continue to do everything in my power to protect the integrity of this criminal investigation and all others in which my office leads. My legal duty to protect the secrecy and integrity of all criminal investigations has been bestowed upon me by Federal, State and Local law,” she wrote Monday.
“And, I have no interest in waiving this responsibility for your politically motivated tactics.”
This story was up to date at 12:12 p.m. on Oct. 15.
