Four Years Later

It was on this day in July of 2022 that I submitted a simple open records request to Manos Antonakakis. I asked him to produce documents he’d largely already compiled for a grand jury subpoena issued by Special Counsel Durham.

He refused to produce the documents. And that refusal came despite him soliciting and receiving taxpayer funds by representing everything was done in the performance of his responsibilities for the State.

I filed suit.

The conduct of the trial court has been outrageous, and a simple case has been needlessly complicated. I won a unanimous opinion in Georgia’s Supreme Court nearly two years ago with instructions on remand that were ignored.

Immediately dismissed on remand, we returned to the Court of Appeals where we completed briefing in late May.

And so we are waiting, once again.

A decision could come in September, give or take a few weeks. The issues are clean enough that we should win quite easily.

From there, we will continue litigating for however long it takes. There’s no scenario where we quit on this. We are probably over halfway through the lawsuit, but whether it ends in three months or another year or two is tough to say.

I’m working on a few things that are quite exciting, including a book in progress on what has happened. It’s become quite a story.

Last week, DOJ produced documents on a FOIA request I made years ago. There is a write-up coming on that, but I’m attempting to have more redactions removed. I know what the documents illustrate, and it goes to the heart of what we’ve focused on for years.

The government is continuing to withhold answers to the questions we’ve been asking for years. Those questions are rooted in a fairly extensive documentary record that we have compiled.

We’ll have a write up and release documents soon, I hope everyone is doing well.