A Georgia appeals court on Thursday booted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D)’s office from the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Trump over her relationship with a top prosecutor on the case.
The panel described Willis’s relationship with ex-special prosecutor Nathan Wade as a “significant appearance of impropriety.”
The court declined to outright dismiss Trump’s indictment, but disqualifying Willis’s office throws the future of the case further into doubt, which was already complicated by Trump’s impending return to the White House.
“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 wrote in its ruling.
“The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring,” it continued.
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