A day after former FBI Director James Comey was reportedly indicted, the Trump Department of Justice reportedly signaled that its scrutiny of prominent opponents of the president is widening.
The New York Times reported late Friday that it had reviewed a federal grand jury subpoena seeking records related to the travel history of Fani Willis, the district attorney from Fulton County, Ga., whose once-high-profile prosecution of Donald J. Trump collapsed earlier this month.
Details of the subpoena remain limited. The Times wrote that “not only was the scope of the probe unclear, but that it was also uncertain if Willis was the target.”
Still, the move is sure to draw attention given Willis’s prominent role in efforts to bring charges against the president.
Willis rose to national prominence after indicting Mr. Trump in an election interference case. Her pursuit of the prosecution drew sustained criticism from Republicans, including Mr. Trump himself, who in 2023 publicly called for her impeachment.
But her credibility suffered a fatal blow when the Georgia Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that she could no longer oversee the case.
In a 4-3 decision, the justices declined to review a lower court ruling that disqualified her because of what the opinion called a “significant appearance of impropriety” linked to her romantic relationship with a top prosecutor on the case.
The ruling effectively ended any chance of the indictment against Mr. Trump moving forward under Willis’s leadership. “I hope that whoever is assigned to handle the case will have the courage to do what the evidence and the law demand,” Willis said after the ruling.
For Trump’s legal team, the decision was vindication. Steve Sadow, his lead attorney in Georgia, said in a statement that the state’s high court had “correctly denied review.”
The new subpoena suggests federal investigators are now examining aspects of Willis’s conduct outside the courtroom. According to the Times, the inquiry is being led by Theodore S. Hertzberg, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and is focused on travel records Willis may have accumulated around the time of the 2024 election.
The Justice Department has not commented publicly, and the scope of the probe remains uncertain.
But speculation has already mounted that the Comey indictment may be a harbinger of further legal action against figures who positioned themselves as political adversaries of the president.
For conservatives, the developments highlight what they argue has long been ignored: that powerful officials who sought to damage Mr. Trump’s political future may themselves have crossed legal and ethical lines. To them, the Supreme Court’s ruling on Willis underscored a point they had been making for years—that her prosecution was tainted from the start.
With Willis’s case in Georgia now dismantled, and her own actions under federal scrutiny, what once was seen as a landmark prosecution of Mr. Trump has turned into a cautionary tale about prosecutorial overreach.
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