The judge wimped out and is also corrupt, he and his wife both donated to Fani. Fani and wade literally lied to the court under oath. That demonstrably proves corrupt intentions bringing the charges against Trump to enrich themselves on the taxpayer dime. DISBAR THEM BOTH AND DISMISS THE CASE!
Filing alleges improper relationship between Fulton DA & top Trump prosecutor
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GA Senator DESTROYED By Lawyer With Facts About Fani Willis.
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Fani Willis Judge Scott McAfee GRANTS Certificate for Immediate Review - I WILL BE RIGHT! Viva Frei
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MSNBC Claims Racism and Sexism To Defend Fani Wills.
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Breaking? Not really. Not unless 10-day-old news is "breaking".
Also, just to clarify: Fani Willis has not been disqualified - not yet, anyway.
This decision merely grants the appeal of McAfee's ruling that Nathan Wade must be removed from the case, but that Fani Willis may remain. However, McAfee also issued a "certificate for immediate review" to expedite any such appeal (see the Viva Frei video in this post).
IOW: McAfee knew that Willis is compromised by, among other things, an "odor of mendacity" (his own words), but being a Democrat judge who is up for reelection, he did not want to be the one to drop the axe on Willis - so he was more than happy to toss this particular hot potato up the chain and let it become Someone Else's Problem[sup]TM[/sup].
The Georgia Court of Appeals had until May 16th to grant or deny the review-certified appeal. (Perhaps that is the source of confusion over this being "breaking" news?) On May 8th, they decided to grant the appeal. Now that they've granted it, the appeal will be heard in the August 2024 term, which begins August 5th and ends November 18th. Their decision must be made on or before March 14th of 2025. This means it is quite unlikely that the trial will continue (with or without a disqualification of Willis) - let alone arrive at a verdict - before the U.S. general election (November 5th). Thus, if this case was actually "designed to fail" in order to install Trump as some kind of dictator, then it seems to have been neither competently designed nor well-executed.
Donald Trump’s effort to oust Fani Willis from case | What happens next?
Georgia Court of Appeals will rule on Trump’s request to remove Fulton DA from historic indictment.
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/20...ust-fani-willis-indictment-what-happens-next/
{Tim Darnell | 08 May 2024}
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Now that the Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to hear an appeal from former President Donald Trump over Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ continuing participation in his historic indictment, what happens next?
The Georgia Court of Appeals’ docket for case number A24I0160, also known as DONALD JOHN TRUMP ET AL V. THE STATE, said the appeal will be heard during the court’s August 2024 term. Per the court’s website, all cases docketed to this term must be decided by March 14, 2025.
The August term ends on Nov. 18, 2024. The court’s argument calendar for August, September and October does not yet list a date for Trump’s appeal.
“President Trump looks forward to presenting interlocutory arguments to the Georgia Court of Appeals as to why the case should be dismissed and Fulton County DA Willis should be disqualified for her misconduct in this unjustified, unwarranted political persecution,” Steve Sadow, one of the former president’s lead Georgia attorneys, said immediately after the court’s announcement on May 8, 2024.
On April 1, Trump and the remaining defendants in Georgia’s historic racketeering indictment formally appealed Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling. That appeal came after McAfee gave the green light to allow such an appeal over his decision. The appeal was signed by all of the attorneys representing the remaining co-defendants who have not already settled the case in Fulton County Superior Court.
However, the appeals court denied hearing a similar appeal from Harrison Floyd, one of the remaining co-defendants and the only person indicted who actually spent time in jail after not posting bail.
In March, McAfee rejected defense efforts to remove Willis and her office over her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, but he did give the defendants permission to seek a review of his decision from the appeals court. In his ruling, McAfee wrote Willis must remove Wade from the racketeering indictment if she were to remain on the case. Wade resigned just hours after that ruling.
Willis herself has engaged in a continuing war of words with her opponents who say they want to hold her accountable over her prosecution and indictment of the nation’s 45th president.
During a May 7, 2024, news conference in which she announced the endorsement of several prominent Black faith leaders in Atlanta, Willis said she would not honor any subpoena issued by a state Senate committee investigating her use of public funds in her Trump investigation.
“First of all, I don’t even think they have the authority to subpoena me, but they need to learn the law,” Willis said Monday. “I will not appear to anything that is unlawful, and I have not broken the law in any way. I’m sorry folks get pissed off that everybody gets treated evenly.”
After her remarks, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones - a likely candidate for governor in Georgia’s wide-open 2026 gubernatorial race - said on X (formerly known as Twitter), “If subpoenaed by the Committee, she will be required to appear or she will be in violation of Georgia law. This is what treating everybody evenly looks like, even if DA Willis doesn’t like being held accountable.”
Last week, state Sen. Bill Cowsert (R-Athens), who chairs the committee investigating Willis, said he would subpoena the Democratic district attorney if she doesn’t agree to appear before his committee.
“She’s a key part of the investigation that her viewpoints are valued by us,” Cowsert said after the committee’s most recent hearing. “We need to hear what she has to say and her explanation of what she thinks are the appropriate rules ought to be going forward so we don’t have this kind of scandal give Georgia a black eye.”
On Friday, the committee reconvened after state lawmakers earlier this year charged it to determine if Willis engaged in any financial misconduct in her investigation and subsequent historic indictment of Trump.
At the heart of the Senate committee’s investigation is Willis’ hiring of Wade and the timing of when their relationship turned romantic. The committee is also looking into allegations that Willis misused state and federal funds.
The move to disqualify Willis began in early January after Michael Roman, one of Trump’s co-defendants, and Ashleigh Merchant, Roman’s attorney, accused Willis and Wade of having an improper relationship. Both Willis and Wade have since acknowledged a romantic relationship.
The allegations that Willis had improperly benefited from her romance with Wade upended the case for weeks. Intimate details of Willis and Wade’s personal lives were aired in court in mid-February. Trump and 18 others were indicted in August, accused of illegally trying to overturn his narrow 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia.
Trump himself has already become the first ex-president in American history to stand trial on criminal charges, as witness testimony continues in his hush money trial. Trump is going on trial on 34 felony counts that he falsified his company’s business records in an attempt to cover up a hush-money payment to adult film star Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all of the criminal cases that have been filed against him since he left the White House in 2021, including those filed by Willis.
The Atlanta-based district attorney indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023 on charges of engaging in a criminal, racketeering-like attempt to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election. That election saw Joe Biden become the first Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1992 to carry Georgia or any other deep Southern state.
McAfee has also rejected arguments from Trump and his attorneys that the actions of the nation’s 45th president are protected by the First Amendment.
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Georgia appeals court disqualifies Fulton County DA Fani Willis from prosecuting Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/politics/fani-willis-donald-trump-georgia/index.html
{Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz & Sara Murray | 19 December 2024}
A Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case against President-elect Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The long-awaited decision, in a state criminal case against Trump that was already on hold, raises questions about whether the case can move forward in court. The appeals court found that Willis’ office can’t prosecute the case, so a new special prosecutor would need to be appointed for the case to continue.
The appeals court found that a “significant appearance of impropriety” was enough to potentially taint the case in the public eye. The appellate court decided, however, it wouldn’t dismiss the sprawling racketeering conspiracy case entirely.
“While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” the court wrote in Thursday’s opinion.
The court added: “We cannot conclude that the record also supports the imposition of the extreme sanction of dismissal of the indictment.”
Willis will continue to fight to stay on the case, as her team has asked the state’s Supreme Court to review the appeals court’s decision. CNN has reached out to her office for comment.
Trump and some of his co-defendants have been trying to get Willis, a Democrat, disqualified from the case because of a romantic relationship she had with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired to help handle the case. The defendants argued that Willis financially benefited from the relationship with Wade, who defense attorneys say covered several vacations for the pair.
Ruling reviewed decision that allowed Willis to stay on case
In their 2-1 majority opinion, Judges Trenton Brown III and Todd Markle wrote that trial judge Scott McAfee’s March ruling [see this post - OB] allowing Willis to continue on the case “did nothing to prevent an ongoing 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.”
Judge Benjamin Land, however, wrote in his dissent that the majority overstepped its authority in overturning McAfee’s ruling.
To make their decision, the panel of three appeals judges could only review McAfee’s ruling. They could not independently review any of the allegations that Trump or his co-defendants made about Willis’ alleged affair with Wade or details of her financial gain. Willis denies benefiting financially from the case and claims her relationship with Wade did not influence her decision to prosecute.
“It is not our job to second guess trial judges or to substitute our judgement for theirs,” Land wrote in his dissent.
“We should resist the temptation to interfere with that discretion, including its chosen remedy, just because we happen to see things differently,” he continued. “Doing otherwise violates well-established precedent, threatens the discretion given to trial courts, and blurs the distinction between our respective courts.”
Ashleigh Merchant, a defense attorney whose original court filing seeking to disqualify Willis set this chain of events in motion, praised the appeals court’s decision and said in a statement to CNN that Willis should have voluntarily recused herself months ago.
“Failing to do so put Judge McAfee in an untenable position,” said Merchant, who represents Mike Roman, a former Trump 2020 campaign official. “This failure of judgment is the exact reason Mr. Roman was forced to move to disqualify her in the first place, so we are thankful that the court agreed she should not be allowed to prosecute this case any further.”
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead counsel in the case, said Thursday’s decision “puts an end to a politically motivated persecution of the next President of the United States.”
Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman, said in a statement: “In granting President Trump an overwhelming mandate, the American People have demanded an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all the Witch Hunts against him. We look forward to uniting our country as President Trump Makes America Great Again.”
Additional legal proceedings to come
Further appeals could drag out the situation even more.
Trump and his co-defendants continue to challenge the case with several other legal arguments that are still being considered by McAfee in the trial court. That includes challenges that raise immunity around the presidency, and the ability of a state to bring a case that has some duplication with federal allegations against Trump that are now dismissed.
Willis previously signaled in post-election court filings that she intended to move ahead with her prosecution even as Trump is set to return to the Oval Office.
The Georgia Supreme Court sits above the Georgia Court of Appeals that ruled on Thursday, and could review Willis’ prosecutorial ability again, meaning she would not automatically be removed. The Georgia Court of Appeals canceled having oral arguments on Willis, and their ruling Thursday came as a surprise, with the court deciding only on the written papers and McAfee’s prior decision.
The Georgia case also marks the most significant legal exposure some of Trump’s top allies — including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows — face for their efforts to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Once all potential appeals are exhausted and the case is remitted back to Superior Court of Fulton County, under Georgia law, the case would automatically be reassigned to the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, a bipartisan collaboration of six district attorneys and three solicitor generals from across the state.
Executive Director Peter Skandalakis told CNN he would be responsible for “looking at the pool of candidates” to appoint a new attorney to oversee the case. The pool includes anyone licensed to practice in the state, meaning a new district attorney could be appointed, a private lawyer, the state attorney general or one of the members who sit on the council.
“Once I get it, I start the process of trying to find a conflict lawyer, and I look for somebody who has the resources and would be interested and actually willing to take on the case,” Skandalakis told CNN.
“It won’t be an easy lift,” he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/politics/fani-willis-donald-trump-georgia/index.html
{Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz & Sara Murray | 19 December 2024}
A Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case against President-elect Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The long-awaited decision, in a state criminal case against Trump that was already on hold, raises questions about whether the case can move forward in court. The appeals court found that Willis’ office can’t prosecute the case, so a new special prosecutor would need to be appointed for the case to continue.
The appeals court found that a “significant appearance of impropriety” was enough to potentially taint the case in the public eye. The appellate court decided, however, it wouldn’t dismiss the sprawling racketeering conspiracy case entirely.
“While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” the court wrote in Thursday’s opinion.
The court added: “We cannot conclude that the record also supports the imposition of the extreme sanction of dismissal of the indictment.”
Willis will continue to fight to stay on the case, as her team has asked the state’s Supreme Court to review the appeals court’s decision. CNN has reached out to her office for comment.
Trump and some of his co-defendants have been trying to get Willis, a Democrat, disqualified from the case because of a romantic relationship she had with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired to help handle the case. The defendants argued that Willis financially benefited from the relationship with Wade, who defense attorneys say covered several vacations for the pair.
Ruling reviewed decision that allowed Willis to stay on case
In their 2-1 majority opinion, Judges Trenton Brown III and Todd Markle wrote that trial judge Scott McAfee’s March ruling [see this post - OB] allowing Willis to continue on the case “did nothing to prevent an ongoing 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.”
Judge Benjamin Land, however, wrote in his dissent that the majority overstepped its authority in overturning McAfee’s ruling.
To make their decision, the panel of three appeals judges could only review McAfee’s ruling. They could not independently review any of the allegations that Trump or his co-defendants made about Willis’ alleged affair with Wade or details of her financial gain. Willis denies benefiting financially from the case and claims her relationship with Wade did not influence her decision to prosecute.
“It is not our job to second guess trial judges or to substitute our judgement for theirs,” Land wrote in his dissent.
“We should resist the temptation to interfere with that discretion, including its chosen remedy, just because we happen to see things differently,” he continued. “Doing otherwise violates well-established precedent, threatens the discretion given to trial courts, and blurs the distinction between our respective courts.”
Ashleigh Merchant, a defense attorney whose original court filing seeking to disqualify Willis set this chain of events in motion, praised the appeals court’s decision and said in a statement to CNN that Willis should have voluntarily recused herself months ago.
“Failing to do so put Judge McAfee in an untenable position,” said Merchant, who represents Mike Roman, a former Trump 2020 campaign official. “This failure of judgment is the exact reason Mr. Roman was forced to move to disqualify her in the first place, so we are thankful that the court agreed she should not be allowed to prosecute this case any further.”
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead counsel in the case, said Thursday’s decision “puts an end to a politically motivated persecution of the next President of the United States.”
Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman, said in a statement: “In granting President Trump an overwhelming mandate, the American People have demanded an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all the Witch Hunts against him. We look forward to uniting our country as President Trump Makes America Great Again.”
Additional legal proceedings to come
Further appeals could drag out the situation even more.
Trump and his co-defendants continue to challenge the case with several other legal arguments that are still being considered by McAfee in the trial court. That includes challenges that raise immunity around the presidency, and the ability of a state to bring a case that has some duplication with federal allegations against Trump that are now dismissed.
Willis previously signaled in post-election court filings that she intended to move ahead with her prosecution even as Trump is set to return to the Oval Office.
The Georgia Supreme Court sits above the Georgia Court of Appeals that ruled on Thursday, and could review Willis’ prosecutorial ability again, meaning she would not automatically be removed. The Georgia Court of Appeals canceled having oral arguments on Willis, and their ruling Thursday came as a surprise, with the court deciding only on the written papers and McAfee’s prior decision.
The Georgia case also marks the most significant legal exposure some of Trump’s top allies — including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows — face for their efforts to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Once all potential appeals are exhausted and the case is remitted back to Superior Court of Fulton County, under Georgia law, the case would automatically be reassigned to the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, a bipartisan collaboration of six district attorneys and three solicitor generals from across the state.
Executive Director Peter Skandalakis told CNN he would be responsible for “looking at the pool of candidates” to appoint a new attorney to oversee the case. The pool includes anyone licensed to practice in the state, meaning a new district attorney could be appointed, a private lawyer, the state attorney general or one of the members who sit on the council.
“Once I get it, I start the process of trying to find a conflict lawyer, and I look for somebody who has the resources and would be interested and actually willing to take on the case,” Skandalakis told CNN.
“It won’t be an easy lift,” he said.
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Breaking News Fani Willis REMOVED from Trump 2020 Election Case!
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Fani Removed
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