Now a judge has found Fannie Willis in default. She was ordered to turn over relevant documents but she has refused so far. What seems to be going on, sir, in your estimation? It’s worse than her refusing. We’re kind of used to that, frankly. We have all kinds of government agencies, federal, state, and municipal who arrogantly flaunt the law by refusing to turn over documents that are substantive or responsive to our requests. Fannie Willis has set an all-time world record for Judicial Watch. In the last 30 years that we’ve been in operation, she is the one and only government official to not even bother to appear in court.

She totally blew off the judge. She was non-responsive in the sense of not responding to the written requests we made but then she failed to appear. So we got a default judgment against her and as you well know we’ve been doing this a long time. We’ve done it against lots of agencies and lots of courts but never in the last 30 years has a government official just sort of given a bird to the judge and not even bothered to show up to court. So basically what happened here is that a judge basically said that you had standing and you had a point and she should turn over the documents and he ordered her to do so.

Or at least show up in court and argue about it. Which she didn’t want to do. Or say, hey we need more time, you know, we’re overwhelmed, we can’t respond. I mean there’s all sorts of the sort of the canned standard lies that we’re used to. Government attorneys do this all the time. But they didn’t even bother to open up the playbook and go with, you know, standard lie number six that just didn’t show. It’s outrageous. Like I said, first time in 30 years. So congratulations Ms. Willis. You’ve set yet another new low.

Well it seems to me if you blow off a judge and they are usually members of the bar as well. And a bar is kind of like a fraternity and there’s sort of, or sorority I guess, sort of a mutual respect and understanding that you abide by certain fundamental protocols, right? I mean that’s kind of the deal, right? And so if you’re blowing off a fellow bar member that seems like they would kind of, that will kind of rattle things a little bit. Here’s the other thing. And anybody viewing this will appreciate it.

Get involved in some legal proceeding. It could be anything. It could be a traffic ticket, something very minor, right? And then you just decide to blow it off. Don’t even appear and see what happens to you. You got arrested. Right. I mean any other ordinary citizen who blows off a hearing with a judge on a point, some issue, some litigation or some matter, every viewer out there knows they would get the hammer dropped on them. They would get, they would feel the full force and effect of the law. So what happens to her now? What happens to Fannie Willis now that she’s defied a judge? Well we’re going to go back into court because she was ordered to produce records to us by Monday and there were some records produced, but for the most part she’s also taken a position, even with the default judgment, she’s taken a position that she can still withhold whatever she wants and she denies that there’s even an entire universe of records that we have very good reason to believe do exist.

So we will go back into court and pursue this. Chris Farrell, who is Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch, thank you for talking to us about American News, sir. It’s a pleasure. [tr:trw].

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