Georgia’s highest court has declined to consider Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ appeal of her removal from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others.

Georgia’s highest court has declined to consider Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ appeal of her removal from the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others.

Citing an “appearance of impropriety” created by a romantic relationship Willis had with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to lead the case, the Georgia Court of Appeals in December ruled that Willis and her office could not continue to prosecute the case.

  • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    The actual case is on hold until 2029. This is a tangential question of who’s allowed to lead the prosecution, if or when it resumes. More importantly, it’s about punishing an elected black woman, hurting her chances of being re-elected, and disrupting whatever institutional knowledge of the 2020 election case exists.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      I mean, all those things are true, but she did have an undisclosed romantic involvement with the attorney she appointed (and paid) to lead the case. She could have appointed any number of various attorneys to lead the prosecution. I want Trump in jail, but these are the sort of unforced errors and endemic corruption that provide cover for criminals like Trump to exist in the first place.

      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        I think it is still important to point out that “romantic involvement” was ended years prior. It isnt a current involvement and thus shouldn’t be expected to have any impact. Is friendship not allowed? You can only work with and appoint people you dont get along with?

        • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          No. Well. It depends on who you believe, but even Willis’ testimony was that they were still dating up until she hired him which would be about a year, maybe a little more. The judge found her and others’ testimony hard to believe.

          It’s a ridiculous argument to make but the State pooched itself.

        • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          2 days ago

          I have not followed the case too closely, because I literally do not care about the salacious details. What matters to me is that the relationship was undisclosed, and because of the scandal, the whole case was fucked. It was one of the best chances to nail Trump to the fucking wall, and it was derailled because of a sex scandal. The irony is dense enough to affect navigational equipment.

          If not for the scandal, they would have attacked her for something else. But she made it easy, and we’re all suffering from her incompetence.