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ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans can subpoena Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis about her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the outside attorney she hired to lead her 2020 election interference case against former and future President Donald Trump and his allies, a judge has ruled. The decision by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram was published Monday. It is the latest blow to Willis in regard to her prosecution of Trump. On Nov. 19, the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis and her office from the case due to her relationship with Wade . Ingram rejected Willis’ arguments that GOP leaders of a state Senate committee didn’t have the authority to issue a pair of subpoenas in August seeking documents and her testimony. But the judge gave Willis until Jan. 13 to explain why the subpoenas shouldn’t be enforced. “(Willis) claims that the subpoenas are overbroad and seek privileged and/or confidential information,” the judge said in her order. “This may very well be true, but this court needs more details on the basis for these objections from (Willis) before ruling on (committee members’) application for enforcement.” Representatives for Willis did not immediately respond Friday to questions about the ruling. Sen. Greg Dolezal , one of the committee members, mentioned the ruling in a social media post Friday. “We’ll see you soon, Madam D.A.,” he wrote. Dolezal, R-Cumming, has unveiled plans to extend the life of the committee into 2025. He told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Ingram’s ruling “follows the plain reading of the law as outlined in our committee.” “From open records laws to lawfully issued subpoenas, D.A. Willis seems to think she is above the law,” Dolezal said. “Once again, the courts ruled otherwise.” Ingram heard arguments from both sides during a hearing in Atlanta on Dec. 3. Willis claimed the subpoenas from the Senate’s Special Committee on Investigations were void because the committee and its members lacked legislative subpoena power, issued the subpoenas while the Senate was adjourned and violated part of the Georgia Constitution. Ingram disagreed. “It is undisputed that the General Assembly has the unenumerated and implied constitutional power to conduct investigations and the statutory authority to issue subpoenas for the purposes of such investigations,” she said. “Here, the Senate, as a chamber, empowered itself to issue subpoenas, which it was authorized to do.” The judge further said Willis failed to identify any authority to support her theory that the subpoenas could not be issued after the Legislature adjourned its regular session on March 28. Ingram also said the Georgia Constitution allows members of one branch of government to investigate members of another branch. The committee members offered to narrow the scope of the subpoenas, the judge noted. She gave them until Jan. 31 to respond to any objections Willis raises about enforcement of the subpoenas. Senators created the committee in January, just weeks after news surfaced that Willis had been in a romantic relationship with Wade. Members sought years worth of communications between Willis and Wade as well as information about his hiring and pay, the DA office’s federal grant funding and interactions with the White House, Justice Department and members of Congress regarding the elections case. They also sought to compel Willis’ attendance at a September hearing, which she declined to attend as she fought her summons in court. ©2024 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Visit at ajc.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.These holiday gifts change the game when building fires, printing photos, watching birds and moreWhat Snoop wants: Arizona Bowl gives NIL opportunities to players for Colorado State, Miami (Ohio)

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Kolkata: Any hope of the opposition parties to dent the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the West Bengal assembly bypolls, the first held after the RG Kar tragedy in August, went up in the smoke as results came out Saturday. Not only did the ruling TMC retain five seats and wrest Madarihat from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), it went on to clinch the two constituencies of Sitai and Haroa by a whopping 1.30 lakh-plus margin. In Sitai, BJP’s Dipak Ray came second to Sanhita Roy of TMC. The BJP candidate got barely 35,348 votes, as compared to 1,65,984 of his Trinamool rival. The results were equally lopsided in Haroa as Mamata’s candidate Sheikh Rabiul Islam got 1,57,072 votes while India Secular Front’s Piyarul Islam mustered only 25,684. Apart from these two constituencies, the TMC’s victory margin also surpassed the previous record at Naihati. Such was the Trinamool’s dominance that its lowest win margin was 28,168 votes in Madarihat, a seat that was with the BJP for the last eight years. In all these six seats, the Trinamool candidates secured above 50 percent of the total vote share. Though the assembly bypoll results are generally tilted in favour of the ruling party, it took place in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital that had rocked Bengal and gathered attention of the entire country. The groundswell of protests seeking justice for the victim had gone to become a strong tide that had put TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee into a tight spot. At one point, the West Bengal chief minister had said that she was ready to resign for the “sake of Bengal”. After the poll results showed no loss in the TMC’s fortunes, three political analysts ThePrint spoke to asserted that the outcry over RG Kar was either limited to the urban areas or a certain section of the society. Moreover, they highlighted the public welfare schemes that have firmly entrenched the TMC in Bengal. Political analyst Snigdhendu Bhattacharya said a bigger factor behind the opposition’s poor performance in Bengal is due to the lack of organisation. “The (RG Kar) protests itself fizzled out, but the bigger outcome of this result is that the parties like the BJP and the CPI (M) have failed to resurrect their organisation that took a blow in 2021. Since the Lok Sabha polls, the TMC has not lost a single byelection in Bengal and issues like Sandeshkhali or RG Kar have failed to be electoral factors time and again,” he asserted. But two other political analysts Biswanath Chakraborty and Jayanta Ghoshal credited the ruling party’s bouquet of welfare schemes for the unrivalled electoral wins. “The bond that the voter shared with the TMC is packed with welfare schemes. That’s why you see despite a heinous crime, the women have reposed faith in Mamata Banerjee. It’s a transactional gesture. The RG Kar incident also wasn’t a political issue, but a social one. The doctors didn’t let political parties join their platform. So the Opposition couldn’t cash in on the protests,” Chakraborty, a political science professor at Rabindra Bharti University, said. Similarly, Ghoshal said that Mamata ensured that her welfare schemes guaranteed her a safety net. “The BJP and the CPI(M)’s weak performance has further helped the TMC to further secure victory. RG Kar might have had a big social media impact but on ground in rural areas or even seats that are closer to Kolkata, it had no impact,” the veteran journalist asserted. Another pointer to the TMC’s dominance was the fact that all candidates of the Left Front and the Congress lost their security deposits for failing to get less than one-sixth of the total number of valid votes cast in their constituencies. Riding on the high of these stunning results, the TMC will from Monday kickstart an overhaul of its organisation, beginning with changes in the lower ranks in those constituencies like Naihati and Medinipore where the party did not record a lead in the general elections held earlier this year. At Naihati, the win margin was 49,277 votes, up from 19,000 votes in the 2021 Vidhan Sabha polls and 15,000 votes in this year’s Lok Sabha polls. Similarly, the TMC’s victory margin at Medinipore was 33,996 votes, up from over 24,000 votes in 2021 and just about 2,000 votes this year. In a brief message on social media platform ‘X’, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hailed the triumvirate of ‘Ma-Mati-Manush’ (mother-soil-people) for the clean sweep in the bypolls. Her nephew and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee congratulated the people for clipping the opposition’s wings. “Congratulations to all six @AITCofficial candidates for their decisive victories in the WB bye elections, defying the narratives created by the ZAMINDARS, the media and a section of the Kol HC to defame Bengal for their own vested interests. A special thanks to the people of Madarihat for giving us the opportunity to serve you for the first time. I bow before the people of West Bengal for democratically dismantling the Bangla Birodhis, their fake narratives and reaffirming their trust in us (sic),” he posted on ‘X’. BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar sought to present a brave face, saying that his party will reverse the poll outcome in 2026. “The results of byelections and general elections don’t match. In the past, we have lost in bypolls but emerged victorious in the consecutive state and Lok Sabha elections. So in the 2026 Vidhan Sabha polls, we will defeat the TMC,” he said. TMC leader Firhad Hakim mocked the BJP after the thumping victory. “A student who has failed in class one is dreaming of passing higher secondary. It’s a joke, when BJP seeks votes,” the state minister said. (Edited by Tony Rai) Also Read: RG Kar stir loses steam as splinter group says protest ‘politicised, focused on toppling health dept’ var ytflag = 0;var myListener = function() {document.removeEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);lazyloadmyframes();};document.addEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {if (ytflag == 0) {lazyloadmyframes();ytflag = 1;}});function lazyloadmyframes() {var ytv = document.getElementsByClassName("klazyiframe");for (var i = 0; i < ytv.length; i++) {ytv[i].src = ytv[i].getAttribute('data-src');}} Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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Seaway7 signs vessel reservation agreement for UK offshore wind farmNEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die after she was engulfed in flames made an initial court appearance Tuesday and will remain in custody. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, who federal immigration officials said is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the U.S. illegally, was arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court. He appeared briefly before a judge and wore a white jumpsuit over a weathered black hooded sweatshirt. He did not speak. He will remain jailed ahead of his next court date on Friday. The apparently random attack occurred Sunday morning on a stationary F train at the Coney Island station in Brooklyn. Police said Tuesday that identification of the victim was still “pending at this time.” Authorities say Zapeta approached the woman, who was sitting motionless in the train car and may have been sleeping, and used a lighter to set her clothing on fire. The woman quickly became engulfed in flames, while the suspect then sat at a bench on the subway platform and watched, according to police. Video posted to social media appeared to show the woman standing inside the train ablaze as some people look on from the platform, and at least one officer walks by. NYPD Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta said Sunday that several officers had responded to the fire and one stayed to keep the crime scene “the way it’s supposed to be" while the others went to get fire extinguishers and transit workers. They were eventually able to douse the fire, but “unfortunately, it was too late,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said — the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. During Zapeta's court hearing on Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Ari Rottenberg said Zapeta at one point fanned the flames on the woman using his shirt. He said a 911 call from a subway rider helped identify Zapeta. Rottenberg added that under interrogation Zapeta claimed he didn’t know what happened, noting that he consumes alcohol. But he alleged that Zapeta identified himself to interrogators in images related to the attack. Zapeta was taken into custody Sunday afternoon while riding a train on the same subway line after police got a tip from some teenagers who recognized him from images circulated by the police. A Brooklyn address for Zapeta released by police matches a shelter that provides housing and substance abuse support. The shelter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Federal immigration officials said Zapeta had been previously deported in 2018 but at some point reentered the U.S. illegally. In a statement, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez called the attack a “gruesome and senseless act of violence against a vulnerable woman” that would be “met with the most serious consequences.” The crime — and the graphic video of it that ricocheted across social media — deepened a growing sense of unease among some New Yorkers about the safety of the subway system in a city where many residents take the subway multiple times each day. Overall, according to authorities, crime is down in the transit system this year when compared to last year — major felonies declined 6% between January and November of this year and in 2023, data compiled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority show. But murders are up, with nine killings this year through November compared to five in the same period last year. Earlier this month, a Manhattan jury acquitted Daniel Penny in the death of an agitated subway rider that the former Marine placed in a chokehold last year. The case became a flashpoint in ongoing debates over safety, homelessness and mental illness on the system. Policing the subway is also difficult, given the vast network of trains constantly moving between the system’s 472 stations, with each stop containing multiple entry points and, in many stations, multiple floors and platforms. On Sunday, police at the station where the woman burned to death were patrolling a different area and responded after seeing and smelling smoke, authorities said.