Fani Willis got thrown off the Trump case for lying about Nathan Wade and watched every charge get dismissed.
Now Georgia handed her some bad news and she is already running to court.
What she did next is the most Fani Willis thing Fani Willis has ever done.
HB 369 Treats DA Races Exactly the Way Georgia Already Treats Judges
Gov. Brian Kemp signed HB 369 on Tuesday – the last day he could act on bills from the 2026 legislative session.
The law requires nonpartisan elections for district attorneys, county commissioners, tax commissioners, superior court clerks, and solicitor-generals in Georgia's five most populous counties: Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, and Clayton.
DA candidates will no longer run as nominees of a political party.
They will compete directly in the general election without a party label – the same way Georgia judges have always run.
House Majority Leader Chuck Efstration said during debate: "There is no Republican line and a Democrat line when entering the courthouse."
Rep. Trey Kelley was blunter: "We're giving voters the opportunity to rid themselves of district attorneys who are more concerned with playing partisan games than prosecuting and delivering justice."
Kemp signed it privately, without ceremony, and didn't say a word about Willis.
He didn't have to.
Willis Calls the Law Racist and Vows a Lawsuit Fulton County Taxpayers Will Pay For
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and DeKalb County DA Sherry Boston issued a joint statement calling the law "clearly unconstitutional" – and "racist, sexist."
The racism argument rests entirely on the fact that the five DAs in the affected counties are all Black women who are Democrats.
That's it.
That's the argument.
Georgia Democrat Party chairman Charlie Bailey went further, claiming the law was designed to let Republicans "hide their party affiliation and confuse voters" – as if Georgia voters in 2028 won't know which candidate is which.
Willis promised to sue.
Taxpayers will fund both sides of that fight – the state defending the law, and Fulton County footing the bill for Willis's lawsuit.
The Woman Who Hired Nathan Wade Now Wants to Run as a Partisan Again
Here is what Willis actually did with her partisan DA power.
She spent years building a 41-count RICO indictment against Trump and 18 co-defendants – the most ambitious election interference prosecution any local DA has ever attempted.
To lead it, she hired Nathan Wade and paid him nearly $800,000 in public funds – then took vacations with him and denied the relationship under oath.
A Georgia appeals court found a "significant appearance of impropriety" and disqualified her entirely.
The Georgia Supreme Court refused to reinstate her 4-3.
A neutral prosecutor reviewed her case and dismissed every charge in November 2025.
The prosecution was "conceived in Washington, D.C., not the State of Georgia," Pete Skandalakis wrote – and shut it down.
Trump was pardoning defendants while Willis was still filing motions trying to get her own name back on the case.
Kemp Also Called a Special Session to Redraw Georgia's Congressional Maps for 2028
HB 369 is not the only move Georgia Republicans made this week.
Kemp announced a special legislative session for June 17 to redraw Georgia's congressional maps for 2028, following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais last month.
Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion found that race-based gerrymandering violates the Constitution.
Georgia currently sends nine Republicans and five Democrats to Congress.
New maps drawn without court-ordered racial gerrymanders could expand that margin.
Kemp called the Callais ruling a decision that "restores fairness to our redistricting process and allows states to pass electoral maps that reflect the will of the voters, not the will of federal judges."
Willis and the Georgia Democrats screaming about both laws are reading the same calendar everyone else is.
Kemp is term-limited.
A Republican governor who will sign new maps has until January.
The window is open right now – and Georgia Republicans walked through it.
When Willis files her lawsuit challenging HB 369, she will be asking Georgia courts to protect her ability to run under a partisan label.
The same partisan label that let her spend years weaponizing the Fulton County DA's office against the Republican Party's presidential candidate.
Georgia judges run without party labels.
The only thing Willis is protecting is her party's ability to turn law enforcement offices into political operations – and call anyone who objects a racist.
Georgia just said no.
Sources:
- Joseph MacKinnon, "Perpetual victim Fani Willis cries RACISM and SEXISM again, this time over common-sense election law," Blaze Media, May 14, 2026.
- Staff, "Kemp signs metro Atlanta elections overhaul as prosecutors vow lawsuit," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 14, 2026.
- Staff, "Georgia governor calls for special session to redraw congressional map after Supreme Court ruling," CBS Atlanta, May 14, 2026.
- Staff, "Georgia election interference case against Trump and others has been dropped," Atlanta News First, November 26, 2025.
- Staff, "Gov. Kemp calls special session to redraw Georgia's political maps," Georgia Asian Times, May 14, 2026.
- Staff, "Georgia Republicans have a chance to fix the congressional map," PJ Media, May 14, 2026.
