A Georgia judge ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to release all records of special counsel Jack Smith or the U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack after a conservative legal group filed a lawsuit seeking documents in the case In connection with the prosecutor’s election interference case in 2020.

The order follows a lawsuit in March by the conservative nonprofit group Judicial Watch, which sued Willis after Fulton County claimed it had no relevant records from either the special counsel’s office or the House Select Committee.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Monday ordered Willis to produce all records within five business days, finding that she violated the state’s open records law by failing to respond to the lawsuit .

Judge McBurney entered a default judgment because Willis failed to put forward a “meritorious defense,” instead claiming she had not been properly served.

“Plaintiff is therefore entitled to default judgment as if each point and paragraph of the complaint were supported by proper and sufficient evidence. “This means here that the plaintiff has established that the defendant violated the ORA by failing to release relevant records or otherwise notify the plaintiff of their decision to withhold some or all of these records,” it said in McBurney’s decision, which ordered Willis to release all records and pay legal fees for Judicial Watch.

Donald Trump and 18 others pleaded not guilty to all charges last year in a sweeping indictment over alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. Four defendants then entered into plea agreements in exchange for agreeing to testify against other defendants.

Smith filed suit against Trump for federal election interference and classified information before both suits were dismissed due to presidential immunity after Trump was re-elected last month.

Trump’s legal team was already seeking any communications between Willis and the House Select Committee, based on a December 2021 letter from Willis to then-committee Chairman Bennie Thompson in which he “demanded access to records that may be relevant to our investigation.”

During a court hearing in January, lawyers for the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office confirmed that they had provided all of the committee’s relevant documents or that the documents were already public.

According to former prosecutor Nathan Wade, prosecutors met with the committee on Jan. 6, but “there was no exchange of specific documents.”

Trump’s criminal case in Georgia is on hold after Trump and his co-defendants tried to have Willis excluded from the case because of her relationship with Wade.

Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee declined to disqualify Willis, but the proceedings were paused as Trump and his co-defendants appealed the decision.

A hearing for the appeal was originally scheduled for December 5, but was unexpectedly canceled last month without explanation.