According to a New York Post report, the Georgia Court of Appeals has officially disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from working on President-elect Donald Trump’s election interference case.
The appellate court stopped short of throwing out the case altogether, however.
From The New York Post:
Judge Trenton Brown in the 12-page order said Trump and eight other co-defendants had “numerous grounds” to appeal the case after a lower court “imposed an improper remedy” despite concluding that Willis’ prosecution had a “significant appearance of impropriety.”
The ruling cites Willis’ decision to hire and extravagantly pay her now-ex-lover Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor, taking him on lavish trips and allowing him to excessively bill her office for his work on the Trump case.
“While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety is generally 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,” Brown and the other appellate jurists contended.
This story is developing…
Georgia appeals court disqualifies Fani Willis from Trump election interference case https://t.co/UixYhkmw8E pic.twitter.com/vTtsk64ZqX
— New York Post (@nypost) December 19, 2024
