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Fani Willis Disqualified in Trump Case
There is a limit to corruption even in Georgia courts.
From Ryan King and Josh Christiensan writing in the New York Post:
The Georgia Court of Appeals has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her entire office from her 2020 election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump.
In a shocking ruling on Thursday, a three-judge panel from the second division of the Peach State’s appellate court denied a request to throw out the case entirely but granted a motion to kick off Willis, 53, and her team who led the indictment against Trump, 78, and 18 co-defendants last year.
I still appreciate the irony of prosecuting an election interference case to perpetrate election interference. You can’t say they lack a sense of humor in Georgia. I imagine the case will be studied in law schools throughout the land as a case study in what prosecutors should never, ever do.
While the appeals court did not throw out the case in its entirety, they did point out several issues with the case that were suspect and likely to bear fruit for President-Elect Trump on appeal.
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Fulton County voters (the actual ones) include a lot of morons.
No prosecutor should want to touch it.
You could say the case was defanistrated.
Previously Fani’s boyfriend had been forced to leave the case due to appearance of impropriety…
Unfortunately for her
But now, not only Fani, but anyone from her office is banned from taking on the case!
I can’t believe you misspelled her name. It’s not “Fanny” it’s “Fani.” That is so rasciss and sexiss. How dare you. When a proud womyn prosecutor rises, you have to smack her down. It’s F-A-N-I, hater.
Say her name. (Accent on the first syllable, faciss. Like KA-ma-la.)
You misspelled my misspelling, but I’ll let it go this time. Also corrected my spelling.
I wasn’t being serious or anything.
Dude, it’s all good. The continuing resolution is defeated and Fani is rightly and properly humiliated for the partisan hack she is. Winning.
Featuring John Yoo:
Hey, take your dad jokes to the meme thread!
https://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1869782203628175660
*groan* Awful, just awful!
(I wish I’d thought of it first!)
I think it’s actually more like FAW-nee.
Seemed more like chutzpah to me.
Fulton County has characteristics that we’re not supposed to notice, and stuff.
Like Dolton, Illinois, for another example.
You’re probably right. I didn’t take the advanced course, just the survey.
Hah! Well played!
Dang it, you got me. I somehow read “John Woo” and clicked it by reflex. I’m dying for a hard boiled presidency.
By “irony” you mean “the use of Joseph Goebbels’ accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.”
By “sense of humor” you mean “fascist political strategy”.
Or as only President Trump could say, “It’s Fanny, like your a$$.”
The four who plead guilty must really be kicking themselves now. There was something of a case (don’t know how strong) against Sidney Powell and Scott Hall for breaking into the Coffee County election office to hack the Dominion voting machine. But Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Cheseboro plead guilty to ridiculous charges on the alternate elector thing.
But it’s possible they just couldn’t afford to defend themselves as much as Trump can. Which is one of the points of lawfare, of course.
Jenna turned rabid anti-Trump. I guess she blamed him for what she did.
Normally there is no faster path to raising my ire than putting words in my mouth, but you do it so very well.
My bad, actually; I should have placed question marks there.
Anyway, my point is that this stuff is intentional.
Yes, it is.
I heard her on a Dinesh DeSouza podcast a couple of days ago and she did not sound anti-Trump at all…just the opposite. I have often wondered how the folks indicted for attempting to uncover the 2020 election fraud felt about having to pay their legal fees. How about John Eastman? He is banned from practicing law in his home State of California. Is Trump secretly covering their losses?
John Eastman was always too good for California, but that is a problem. I don’t know if Trump paying for his legal costs is right either though. Taxpayer-funded prosecutors etc are the ones who did the damage, so the best option might be for the taxpayers to have to pay for the damage caused by their employees. Whether that’s done with a high-paying regular job or a government-funded “think tank” for him to operate, I don’t know what the best option is.
It seems though, KC, that the only way you get reimbursed from the taxpayers is to sue the state. How much money is that going to cost? I am guessing, way too much. And how long would it take? I am guessing John Eastman doesn’t have that much time. Is there some other way?
No I meant in terms of some federal activity, which might end up costing taxpayers nationally rather than just California but they DID (supposedly) elect FJB too so that might still be valid. Trump or maybe the incoming AG or whatever could set up something for Eastman to run that gets him some compensation, for example.
There might even be some way for Eastman to be federally compensated through a “consent decree” or whatever, and fund it from money taken from federal funds that normally would have gone to California. Or something. Maybe some of that high-speed-rail boondoggle money. I’d already been hearing about how the feds were trying to get some of that back, and they could give some to Eastman.