(The Center Square) – Members of a subcommittee of the Special Senate Committee on Investigations did not hear from former Fulton County assistant District Attorney Nathan Wade on Friday, but expect he will appear in the next few weeks.
The 2024-created committee is investigating the prosecution and added the New Georgia Project, led by former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, to its agenda last year.
Wade and Deputy District Attorney Jeff Disantis were subpoenaed to testify before a subcommittee led by Sen. Greg Dolezal, R-Cumming. They did not respond to the Feb. 2 subpoena, so the committee hired a process server.
Dolezal said he anticipates having the two appear without taking legal action, as he did with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The committee is hoping to arrange a time for the two to appear that does not conflict with the ongoing legislative session, said Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, who leads the full committee of the Special Senate Committee on Investigations.
The committee is tasked with inquiring about Willis’ case against Trump and 18 other defendants to see if “these allegations may show that existing state laws, including those establishing processes for selecting, hiring, and compensating special assistant district attorneys, are inadequate to address various legal and fiscal issues raised by District Attorney Willis’ alleged conduct,” according to the bill that created the study committee.
Wade was appointed by Willis to lead the prosecution against Trump. She testified before the committee in December after losing a court challenge to her subpoena.
The fiery testimony included a heated exchange between Dolezal and Willis. The senator asked Willis if she had discussed the 2020 election investigation with Wade before taking office in 2021.
“Prior to you being sworn in as district attorney, is it your testimony that you did not have any conversation with Mr. Wade about investigating the 2020 election?” Dolezal asked.
“It’s a d—–s question,” Willis said to her attorney, former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes.
The case against Trump and the 18 others was dismissed after Peter Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, appointed himself to the case after Willis was disqualified and no other prosecutor would take the case.
Skandalakis filed a motion to dismiss the case on Nov. 26, and Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee signed it later that day.
Willis has stood by her decision to prosecute the case.
