Jeff Clark claims Fani Willis punishing 'thought crime' with 'spaghetti-on-the-wall' case

Former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark has filed a special plea arguing an election subversion case against him be dismissed because it represented a "massive and grotesque abuse of prosecutorial power" by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

In a 39-page filing on Tuesday, Clark challenged Willis' jurisdiction after he was charged with conspiracy under Georgia's RICO act and for allegedly attempting to commit false statements and writings. Prosecutors accused Clark of trying to coerce Georgia officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election by drafting a letter, which the Justice Department eventually rejected.

Attorneys for Clark argued that he could not be prosecuted because he used his official government email account to distribute the letter.

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"Indeed, the charged conduct relating to the draft did not involve any contacts or effects whatsoever with or inside the State of Georgia," the plea said.

"The Indictment thus seeks to punish a thought crime with the full penal and coercive power of the State," the document stated. "History teaches that only lies need be sustained by the coercive power of the State. Our country was founded as a refuge from criminal enforcement of religious and political dogmas, but that patrimony now lies in tatters; its fiery destruction stoked by public officials who took oaths to uphold it — and by rabid mainstream media partners."

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The filing called Willis' case a "sprawling, strained, and spaghetti-on-the-wall conspiracy theory."

"So here we are: this District Attorney seeks to imprison the leading presidential candidate of her opposite political party, to the acclaim of those baying for his destruction. She has dragged all of us not just into the outskirts of dangerous constitutional territory but into the maelstrom of a full-blown constitutional collapse," the plea said.

Read the entire special plea here.