The Georgia prosecutor who indicted Trump, Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis, is being targeted by the GOP for removal under a new law.

A little over a week after a prosecutor in Georgia indicted former President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 presidential election, Republicans said they will use a new law to remove her from office.

In May, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the law that created a new commission of political appointees with the power to remove and discipline elected prosecutors over decisions or policies not to prosecute certain offenses. The law seeks to limit or restrict reform-minded prosecutors. In the case of Fulton County — which includes Atlanta — though, District Attorney Fani Willis is not even known as much of a reformer. Instead, Republican lawmakers set their sights on Willis for another reason: prosecuting the wrong person.

              • bdiddy@lemmy.oneEnglish
                41·
                10 months ago

                down votes take you down the chain in reddit so you can basically be downvoted to where no one would see what you wrote. If they had a brigade they could take you out of a conversation

                • billy_bollocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Yea I was aware of the up/downvote ranking system they used. I guess I just didn’t care enough for it to matter to me. Thanks for the heads up regardless

                • frezik@midwest.social
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  If you got a lot of downvotes in a short amount of time, Reddit would throttle your posting for a while. If you wandered into some of the right wing echo chambers around there, you would sometimes see people blaming the mods for this, but it’s a site-wide setting.

            • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
              1·
              10 months ago

              My instance doesn’t allow or federate downvotes lol

              If I post something that ruffles loads of feathers, I’d never know unless someone challenged or opened my eyes to an alternative view… because my instance only shows me the upvotes 😅

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.oneEnglish
      59·
      10 months ago

      Yes they are. Kemp seems to have had all sorts of tricks up his sleeve to suppress voters. This “no you can’t prosecute our people” committee is no great surprise to me.

      The GOP will stop at nothing to ensure they can do whatever the fuck they want. Across the board in every way they can imagine they threaten to further degrade and eventually destroy democracy. For them, Russia is a model of what they’re going for.

      • Damionsipher@lemmy.world
        181·
        10 months ago

        When does the whole second amendment kick in and people start using it to defend against authoritarian governments?

        • BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml
          2·
          10 months ago

          Because there’s not a gravy seal out there with the balls to stand up to actual, trained soldiers.

          • Techmaster
            1·
            10 months ago

            But it’s not soldiers. It’s just a bunch of greasy politicians.

    • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
      93·
      10 months ago

      We are playing Mafia now?

      Were we ever not? All through world history, political parties have only ever been competing mafias of one sort or another.