The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
The Georgia House approved a measure to create a new state board that could punish or oust district attorneys, the latest step in an ongoing campaign by Republicans to exert oversight over prosecutors they see as skirting their duties.
The measure passed the House 98-75 on Monday over the objections of Democrats and prominent prosecutors. Among them is Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading an ongoing probe of Donald Trump and has framed the proposals as racist and reactionary.
Republicans have rallied around the overhaul as a way to rein in “rogue prosecutors” who they see as ineffective or inept.
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The Georgia House just approved a measure to create a new state board that could punish or oust district attorneys, the latest step in an ongoing campaign by Republicans to exert oversight over prosecutors they see as skirting their duties. #gapol https://t.co/m5VUyyu3Bs
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 6, 2023
Rachel #Maddow on Georgia GOP trying to save Trump, “This is dismantling the way the legal system works so it will no longer work against him….This is Republicans voting to give themselves the power to remove a prosecutor that acts in a way they don’t like.” pic.twitter.com/y8rZCegSDD
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 7, 2023
Republicans are coming for Fani Willis down in Georgia, probably because they realize that she’s coming for them, and that she’s getting damn close. https://t.co/UV332QTsdR
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 6, 2023