Georgia Republican lawmaker moves to impeach Trump prosecutor Fani Willis
A Republican state senator in Georgia has moved to impeach the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis.
The move comes in the wake of Willis’s delivery of a 41-count indictment against the former president Donald Trump and his operatives on state racketeering and conspiracy charges over efforts to reverse Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss in the state.
On Thursday, Colton Moore wrote a letter to Governor Brian Kemp in which he called for an emergency review of Willis’s actions.
“We, the undersigned … hereby certify to you … that in our opinion an emergency exists in the affairs of the state, requiring a special session to be convened … for all purposes, to include, without limitation, the review and response to the actions of Fani Willis,” Moore wrote.
Moore, who represents senate district 53, posted his letter on Twitter alongside the caption: “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,” he added.
In a statement reported by the rightwing media outlet Breitbart, Moore said: “We must strip all funding and, if appropriate, impeach Fani Willis.”
Moore appears to have also launched a website for the official petition of Willis.
“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 politically motivated weaponization of our justice system at the expense of taxpayers will not be tolerated. 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,” the website read underneath a headline of “God. Guns. Liberty. Leadership.”
Moore’s announcement triggered praise from several conservatives online, with one person writing: “Fi
nally a Republican with courage. So refreshing to see someone FIGHT instead of sit back and say ‘there’s nothing we can do.’”
Another user wrote: “Finally, a Republican with a backbone.”
“Republicans who walk the walk are my kind of Republicans,” someone else wrote.
Following Willis’s delivery of the 41count indictment, the Fulton county district attorney, who is African American, has faced a wave of racist abuse online including from Trump, who, using a thinly veiled play on the Nword, wrote on Truth Social: “They never went after those that Rigged the Election … They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”
health conditions and don’t smoke or have high blood pressure, for example. Others have diabetes but also other things such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol and smoke, the traditional risk factors for arterial disease,” he said.
“In a minor amputation we may remove a toe or several toes. But in major cases we remove the leg below, at or above the knee. If you haven’t done the amputation, the sepsis will kill the patient. So the amputation is in effect a life-saving procedure, [which is] done because there are no other antibiotics left to use and we are at the end of the road treatment-wise.”
He said the profile of those undergoing an amputation in the NHS was broadly the same as those in Sweden.
Older people are also at higher risk of an amputation, even if they have been diagnosed with diabetes only quite recently, the study found. Each year of extra age meant someone was at 8% higher risk, said the authors, who were led by Dr Stefan Jansson, of
Örebro University.
Patients who are on insulin treatment, have a pre-existing foot condition such as neuropathy or who smoke are also at higher risk. But, in a surprising finding, the study concluded that obese people have a lower risk than those with a standard weight. The authors could not explain this finding but suggested it could be down to chance.
Jansson will present the results, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes’ annual conference in early October.
Dr Faye Riley, the research communications manager at Diabetes UK, said: “This study identifies a range of factors that may be linked with a higher risk of amputation among people with diabetes, and raises interesting questions about how social support can influence our health behaviours and outcomes. By pinpointing which people with diabetes are most at risk, support can be targeted where it’s most needed.”