(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice was right to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock said on Sunday.

“Classified documents are to be taken seriously and they are to be handled with a great deal of care and no one is above the law,” Warnock told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl. “So I’m glad to see the Justice Department doing its work, and we ought to let that work proceed.”

The White House has acknowledged that multiple sets of documents with classified markings, including those from Biden’s time as vice president, were found at an old office that Biden used and at his home in Delaware.

On “This Week,” Karl pressed Warnock: “The White House knew about this back in November, even before the midterms. Do you think that they should have told us about this earlier?”

“The Justice Department is engaged in the investigation and that’s one of the questions that I think they will explore. And I don’t want to get in front of that investigation,” Warnock said.

He also said he was “glad to see that the president and his administration are cooperating.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that a special counsel, Robert Hur, would lead the investigation into the Biden documents. The White House has stressed that it was Biden’s team who first flagged the materials to the government and that they intend to be cooperative.

“We need to get to the bottom of this so that we don’t see this kind of thing happen again,” Warnock said on “This Week.”

Georgia forward Devin Willock and a recruiting employee died early Sunday morning in a car crash, the school said, just hours after the Bulldogs celebrated their second consecutive national championship with a parade and ceremony.

Two other participants in the football program were injured in an accident that occurred in Athens, south of the Georgia campus. They were not immediately identified, but the school said that both were in stable condition.

ESPN reported that another offensive lineman, Warren McLendon, was among the injured. On Saturday, the junior announced that he was participating in the NFL Draft.

The one-vehicle accident occurred at approximately 2:45 am, according to a statement from the Athens-Clark County Police Department.

An initial investigation found that the Ford Expedition “ran off the roadway, hitting two power poles and several trees,” the statement said.

Willock, 20, died at the scene. The driver of the car, 24-year-old Chandler LeCroy, was taken to the hospital, where she died from her injuries.

Lecroy was a recruiting analyst for the Bulldogs.

On Saturday, Georgia celebrated a 65-7 thrashing of TCU in the national championship game with a parade through the city and a ceremony at Sanford Stadium.

The joyful mood was quickly replaced by sadness.

“We are all heartbroken and devastated by the loss of Devin Willock and Chandler LeCroy,” said Georgia coach Kirby Smart. “Devin was an outstanding young man in every way. He was always smiling, he was a great teammate and it was a pleasure to train him.”

Republicans in the House of Representatives will follow through on a promise and will vote on a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and eliminate the national income tax.

The House will vote on Georgia Republican Rep. Buddy Carter’s reintroduced Fair Tax Act because it was part of the deal between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and members of the House Freedom Caucus to give Kevin the gavel

Carter said: “Cosponsoring this Georgia-made legislation was my first act as a Member of Congress and is, fittingly, the first bill I am introducing in the 118th Congress. Instead of adding 87,000 new agents to weaponize the IRS against small business owners and middle America, this bill will eliminate the need for the department entirely by simplifying the tax code with provisions that work for the American people and encourage growth and innovation.

“Armed, unelected bureaucrats should not have more power over your paycheck than you do.”

Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C. said:

“As a former small business owner, I understand the unnecessary burden our failing income tax system has on Americans.

 “The Fair Tax Act eliminates the tax code, replaces the income tax with a sales tax, and abolishes the abusive Internal Revenue Service. 

“If enacted, this will invigorate the American taxpayer and help more Americans achieve the American Dream.”

“I support the Fair Tax because it simplifies our tax code,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va.

“This transforms the U.S. tax code from a mandatory, progressive, and convoluted system to a fully transparent and unbiased system which does away with the IRS as we know it. 

• Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections

Talmadge fired elected officials who resisted his authority. Others were thrown out of their offices. Literally.

After Julian Bond’s election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, the chamber voted against seating him ostensibly because he had publicly state his opposition to the war in Vietnam. On January 10, 1967, after the United States Supreme Court held the legislature had denied Bond his right to free speech, he was seated as a member of the State House.

Eight years ago, on January 10, 2014, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution released a poll of the Georgia Governor’s race that showed Nathan Deal with 47 percent to 38 percent for Jason Carter. The nine-point Deal advantage was as close as the AJC polling firm would come all year to correctly predicting the point spread in the General Election.

Governor Nathan Deal was sworn-in as the 82d Governor of Georgia on January 10, 2011 while snow shut down the planned public Inaugural.

Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections

Some sportsball stuff happened yesterday.

Senate Resolution 6, introduced yesterday and passed by both chambers, sets out the legislative schedule through Day 40 of the General Assembly. I believe this is a first.

Session this week will be held Wednesday (LD2), Thursday (LD3), and Friday (LD4).

Next week will be devoted to budget hearings, so no Legislative Days.