The order that the office of the district attorney of Fulton County, Fani Willis — meaning taxpayers — is required to pay more than $54,000 and hand over records for violating Georgia’s open records law is a stinging rebuke to the scandal-plagued prosecutor.

The punishment was handed down by a Fulton County judge, Rachel Krause. Judge Krause found that Ms. Willis’s stratagems to avoid compliance “were intentional, not done in good faith, and were substantially groundless and vexatious.” The request for records was initially filed by an attorney, Ashleigh Merchant.