Fani Willis fires back after Kenneth Chesebro asks court to suppress fake elector docs

A court filing from the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis argued that defendant Kenneth Cheseboro could not have so-called "fake" elector documents suppressed based on attorney-client privilege.

The document, filed on Monday, said that Cheseboro "has not made a showing that he has engaged in an attorney-client relationship or that the memoranda and emails qualify for protection substantively."

The filing included five exhibits that Willis said demonstrate Cheseboro's role as an architect of a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election using slates of false electors.

Attorneys for Cheseboro have said that they believe the documents are protected by attorney-client privilege.

"Defendant has not made a showing that he has engaged in an attorney-client relationship or that the memoranda and emails qualify for protection substantively," Willis stated in the filing. "Further, any attorney-client privilege or work product protection has been waived by their dissemination outside any attorney-client relationship."

"Finally, the crime-fraud exception applies as these memoranda were the basis for Defendant and his co-conspirators attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election and in particular, to submit a scheme in which to create false electoral college documents to disrupt and delay the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021."

Willis and attorneys for Cheseboro were expected to present their arguments before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Tuesday afternoon.

Cheseboro has asked for a "speedy" trial along with defendant Sidney Powell. Other co-defendants, including former President Donald Trump, have not asserted their right to a quick trial.