Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is now at the center of an escalating legal conflict after a Georgia judge ruled in favor of Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization,

in a lawsuit seeking access to her office’s communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. Judge Robert McBurney of the Fulton County Superior Court made the

decision following Willis’s office’s failure to timely respond to Judicial Watch’s open records request. The court issued a default judgment against Willis,