Republican Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore sent a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) requesting an emergency session of the legislature to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
The investigation in a special session would be the first step in an impeachment proceeding against Willis, who convened a grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others on racketeering charges.
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As a Georgia State Senator, I am officially calling for an emergency session to review the actions of Fani Willis.
America is under attack. I’m not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET political opponents. pic.twitter.com/gpzg2l5uIU
— Sen. Colton Moore (@realColtonMoore) August 17, 2023
“As a Georgia State Senator, I am officially calling for an emergency session to review the actions of Fani Willis. America is under attack. I’m not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET political opponents,” Moore posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Moore is also circulating a petition on his campaign website calling on people to support his calls for an emergency session.
“Corrupt District Attorney Fani Willis is potentially abusing her position of power by pursuing former President Donald J. Trump, and I am calling on my colleagues in the Georgia legislature to join me in calling for an emergency session to investigate and review her actions and determine if they warrant impeachment,” the petition Moore is circulating said.
“The politically-motivated weaponization of our justice system at the expense of taxpayers will not be tolerated,” the petition continued. “I am demanding that we defund her office until we find out what the hell is going on. We cannot stand idly by as corrupt prosecutors choose to target their political opposition.”
Moore, speaking on the Charlie Kirk Show on Thursday, said Willis’s indictment of Trump was “disgusting” and that he would not stand by to allow her to “persecute her political opponent to the tune of the death penalty.”
“We’re in a dire situation. After these indictments came out, I woke up, ate my biscuit, and I was like, ‘Is there a hair in my biscuit?’ I mean, this is disgusting. We have a district attorney using taxpayer money, using her government authority, to persecute her political opponent to the tune of the death penalty,” Moore said.
“I will not be a sitting senator in this state and potentially have the former president be executed in the state of Georgia,” he added.
When asked if he believed other state senators would push to investigate Willis, he said they would join him once they heard from their constituents.
Trump was indicted by a Fulton County grand jury on Monday on 13 counts, along with 18 others, as part of the alleged racketeering scheme.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, speaking in a late-night press conference on Monday, said Trump and his co-conspirators were working to “accomplish the illegal goal of allowing Donald J. Trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on Jan. 20, 2021.”
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Kemp has remained mostly quiet on Trump’s indictment in the Peach State, opting only to deny the former president’s continued claims of widespread voter fraud in Georgia’s elections in 2020.
When reached by the Washington Examiner, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment.
