House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has issued an ultimatum to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, urging her to cooperate with his committee’s investigation or face potential contempt of Congress charges.
In a letter sent to Willis on Thursday, as first reported by Fox5 Atlanta, Jordan emphasized the urgency of her compliance with the committee’s requests for documents. Failure to produce the requested documents within two weeks could result in the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings, he warned.
The Ohio Republican specified a deadline of noon on March 28 for Willis to fulfill the panel’s subpoena.
Jordan’s initial subpoena, issued on February 2, focused on allegations of misusing federal funds. It requested documents and communications related to Willis’s office’s receipt and utilization of federal funds from the Justice Department. While acknowledging receipt of a “narrow set of documents” from Willis, Jordan deemed her compliance thus far as “deficient.”
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have been scrutinizing Willis’s use of federal funds, particularly in relation to her office’s investigation into former President Donald Trump and his associates. Willis has accused Jordan of attempting to impede the prosecution of Trump’s election interference case in Georgia. In response to Jordan’s earlier request for information, Willis labeled it as an “unjustified and illegal intrusion” into a state criminal prosecution.
In his letter, Jordan accused Willis of attacking a former employee who spoke out about the alleged misuse of federal grant funds. He refuted Willis’s characterization of the subpoena as “overbroad and unduly burdensome,” asserting that the committee had exercised restraint in its oversight responsibilities.
