Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) asked Georgia’s top court to review her disqualification from the election subversion case against President-elect Trump and several allies.
In a petition filed late Wednesday to the Supreme Court of Georgia, Willis said the state’s mid-level appeals court “overreached” its authority in “all directions” when it decided she should be removed from the prosecution over her past romantic relationship with a top prosecutor on the case.
“No Georgia court has ever disqualified a district attorney for the mere appearance of impropriety without the existence of an actual conflict of interest,” Willis’s office wrote. “And no Georgia court has ever reversed a trial court’s order declining to disqualify a prosecutor based solely on an appearance of impropriety.”
Georgia’s Court of Appeals disqualified Willis and her office from the 2020 election case last month in a 2-1 decision over her inappropriate romance with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
The state’s high court, controlled by justices appointed by Republican governors, must first decide whether to take up the appeal at all.
Even if the court hears Willis’s appeal and rules in her favor, she may not have a chance to resurrect the case until 2029—after Trump has left office—since legal experts agree sitting presidents cannot be criminally prosecuted.
If it lets the appeals court’s ruling stand, the case would be handed off to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, a nonpartisan state agency. The agency could then send the case to another district attorney’s office, which would decide whether to proceed, appoint a special prosecutor or handle the case itself.
Willis’ case is one of the remaining criminal prosecutions against Trump.
This article originally appeared on Great America News Desk. It is republished with permission.
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Roting, Lying, bottom feeding, Scum Bucket!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD93r3ys7u8
Maybe this will make the situation a little more clear!!
And not only what Willis said, she is a DEI elected woman of color and no court in Georgia has ever dare fire one from a case in Georgia history…. right? No matter how ridicules the case is or how much money she stole, it must be against the law to take her case away…???
Willis needs to give up while she is ahead. Her sense of entitlement is beyond belief. Her pushing of this politically driven case is disgusting. I think Willis, Bragg, James. Engoron, Merchan, Smith and anyone else involved in these political indictments should themselves be arrested, tried and jailed for election interference.