Summary
A Georgia appellate court disqualified Fulton County DA Fani Willis from prosecuting Donald Trump and co-defendants in the 2020 election interference case due to her relationship with a special prosecutor, Nathan Wade.
The court ruled Willis’ involvement compromised public confidence, despite Wade’s resignation.
While the case has not been dismissed, transferring it to another county prosecutor may prove difficult given its political and legal complexity.
The decision significantly undermines the case, following federal prosecutors already dropping related charges after Trump’s reelection.
Do Aileen Cannon next
As much as I think the esteemed Judge Cannon should not hold her position, can an appeals court actually disqualify a judge?
Are they trying to undermine our entire legal system? How does one person commit so many crimes and people just let him. Any regular person would be in prison for 40 years for half the stuff Trump has done.
This ruling undermines my confidence in the legal and justice system. What a crock of shit.
Admittedly, even trying to see the right-wing perspective gives me acid indigestion, but can someone explain-like-I’m-5 why the DA’s romantic life has any bearing on the matter?
Right-wing perspective: because she is using state money to pay her lover who then takes her on vacations, it is in her interests to drag out the case to keep paying her lover more money. This means she will keep dragging Trump through the mud just to keep taking funneling state money to her lover. She had the choice of who to hire as her support team, and she chose to hire someone she is not only sleeping with but also taking nice vacations with who pays for parts of those trips.
Reality: she is paying her share of those vacations and tried to move the case faster than the defendant’s lawyers wanted. She has no interest in dragging the case out and all the delays have been on Trump’s side.
The real issue: she had to be 100% perfect to take down Trump, and she allowed her personal life to interfere with her professional life. If she had hired someone else or put her relationship on hold, then maaaaaaaaybe Trump would have gone to trial (HAHAHAHAHA, yeah right). If this man was so important to her, then she should have recused herself.
For… hiring someone she knew. I’m still not seeing it, unless there’s evidence that she was dragging the case out, as you say.
The way I understand their conspiracy theory is this. That the DA hired a lead lawyer in her case against Trump who she had/was romantically involved with. She did this for a high profile case as a witch hunt so that the lawyer she hired could use his pay to give her vacations and gifts in exchange for letting him work on a case that put himself and family in danger, and that several others asked before him had refused.
It’s insane and makes no sense, but that’s it in a nutshell.
Because people’s personal lives can impact their professional lives. I’m not saying she should have recused herself, or that there’s a legitimate CoI, but moving a case due to one isn’t unheard of at all.
I could see it in the case of a defendant, but for the prosecution under these circumstances I’m not sure what could be seen as affecting the states case. The right seemed to be framing it like she made the whole thing up just so she could hire an ex (according to DA/Lawyer) and pay him a bunch of money he would then funnel back to her via gifts/travel.
The fact that she got the indictment means that a grand jury already thought there was enough evidence of Trump’s guilt for him to be charged, which blows their whole political witch hunt nonsense out of the water. Also if you were going to do some weird money exchange scam as the DA it seems like there would be much easier ways than hiring an ex (or even current significant other) as your lead lawyer in a very high profile case you know everyone is going to be looking at.
