BREAKING: Fani Willis Disqualified from Prosecuting Trump by Georgia Appellate Court

In a majority opinion written by Judge E. Trenton Brown issued on Thursday, December 19, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis is disqualified from prosecuting former president and current President-elect Donald J Trump, citing the appearance of impropriety in Willis’s prosecution of Trump. As background, Willis brought a case against Trump and over a dozen of his 2020 campaign and legal staff, arguing that they committed election interference in 2020. However, Trump and a number of his co-defendants challenged Willis over her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, one of her prosecutors in the case, arguing that Willis financially benefitted from the relationship because of trips they took together. In any case, in the opinion, Judge Brown said, that the trial court was incorrect when it decided not to disqualify Fani Willis from the case, though it did disqualify Nathan Wade. Judge Brown wrote, “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,” Continuing, Judge Brown then noted that there was enough of an appearance of impropriety to demolish the public’s faith in the judicial system, meaning that the… CONTINUE READING…