DA Fani Willis has officially been disqualified from the election subversion case against President-elect Donald Trump. CNN reports that the Georgia Court of Appeals will reverse its previous decision, allowing Willis to stay on the polarizing case after it was revealed that she had a romantic relationship with one of the prosecutors she hired for the prosecution.
With the case on hold, a new prosecutor would need to be selected and appointed for the case to move forward. It should be noted that the Georgia Court of Appeals’ decision dismisses the charges or the case brought against Trump.
“After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify Willis and her office,” the court of appeals wrote in a statement. “While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, prosecutor Daysha Young, attorney Andrew Evans and prosecutor Nathan Wade, listen during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. The hearing is to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump and a slew of his allies were charged in Georgia for attempting to allegedly overturn the 2020 election to which he lost the state to Joe Biden. Willis then brought forth the charges, and then the indictment, against Trump, with the DA’s case gaining momentum. However, the case hit a major roadblock when it was revealed that Willis had a relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was hired on the case.
The judge overseeing the forthcoming case stated that it was “damaged by appearance of impropriety” and that Willis had a “serious lapse in judgment” over her relationship with Wade. At the time, the judge ruled that Willis could stay on the case as long as Wade stepped down. Months after Wade stepped down, though, the judge ruled that Willis must step down as well.
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