Pete Skandalakis, who took over the case after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified, said the case was “without precedent.”

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    I don’t consider mere membership in a political party as very strong evidence of bias. There are only two viable political parties in America and “membership” is nothing more than ticking a box on a form. Even I’m technically a Republican despite being a “woke lefty” because I just wanted to vote against Trump in the 2024 primary election and because it causes the Republican Party to waste money mailing me “get out the vote” campaign material which I immediately throw in the recycle bin.

    Civil servants are allowed to have political leanings. This doesn’t make them automatically biased. That is Donald Trump-level reasoning. Just like he was wrong to attack the New York prosecutor who happens to be a Democrat, I’m not going to attack this guy just because he happens to be a Republican.

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      I don’t consider mere membership in a political party as very strong evidence of bias.

      Then you need to start paying attention.

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        I am deeply offended by that. I worked in a municipal government for several years and I can assure you that there are plenty of Republican civil servants who take their jobs just as seriously and act with as much impartiality as their Democratic counterparts.

        Like I said, to dismiss someone as “biased” only because they have the opposite political orientation is Trump-level reasoning.

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      The Republican party has not been a traditional political party in quite awhile now, Trumpism has fully transformed it into a dangerous cult. Continued affiliation with the Republican party in the current political context is plenty of evidence to know someone is deeply biased and poses a threat the rule of the law.

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      You’re free to do your own trump level reason in this case. No one in good conscious can still support the republican party with all the shit going on.