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Fani Willis Disqualified in Trump Case

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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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  • Orange Gerald@Jose

    Previously Fani's boyfriend had been forced to leave the case due to appearance of impropriety...

    Judge Scott McAfee, the Fulton County trial judge who had presided over the Democrat DA's prosecutorial misconduct proceedings earlier this year, ultimately allowed Willis to remain in charge of the case, so long as Wade resigned. Within hours of McAfee's non-disqualification decision, Wade recused himself for the sake of the case's continuance.

    Unfortunately for her

    Removing only Wade "did not cure the already existing appearance of impropriety" and the "odor of mendacity" that lingered in the affair's aftermath, the legal body wrote.

    But now, not only Fani, but anyone from her office is banned from taking on the case!

    Since the appeals court declined to toss out the case entirely, that means another prosecutor could, in theory, take over.

    Accordingly, while Willis is "wholly disqualified" from prosecuting Trump's case, her deputy DAs, "whose only power to prosecute a case is derived from the constitutional authority of the district attorney who appointed them," also hold "no authority to proceed," per the appellate court order.

  • Barfly@Barfly

    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.)

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