Back in March a Fulton County judge ruled that District Attorney Fani Willis would remain on Donald Trump's election interference case after her secret romance with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade was uncovered [click here if you missed that].
Now an appellate court has reversed the ruling...
From NBC News
A Georgia appellate court Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and removed her from prosecuting Donald Trump and co-defendants in a case she brought over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The decision is likely to cripple the case and bring a halt to the efforts to try Trump and his allies for their efforts to overturn his loss. Federal prosecutors have already dropped Trump's federal criminal case related to the 2020 election in the wake of his winning the presidency.
"After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office," the court said, referring to an earlier ruling that allowed Willis to remain on the case. Willis had been under scrutiny over her relationship with a special prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade. Trump and other co-defendants had requested to have Willis removed from the case.
In a statement, Trump attorney Steve Sadow praised the court's "well-reasoned and just decision sand said that it "puts an end to a politically motivated persecution of the next President of the United States."
The court did not go so far as to completely dismiss the case, and Georgia law allows for the case to be assigned to a different county prosecutor in the state. But legal experts have said that is likely to be a difficult task given the complicated, political and novel nature of the sprawling racketeering case brought by Willis.
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