Atlanta D.A. Asks Georgia Court to Review Decision Kicking Her Off Trump Case
The New York Times
In a filing late Wednesday, Fani Willis petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to allow her to keep prosecuting Donald J. Trump over efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Fani T. Willis asked the Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday to put her back on the Trump election interference case.
Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., petitioned the state’s high court to review a recent decision disqualifying her from prosecuting President-elect Donald J. Trump and his allies over efforts to keep him in power despite his loss in the 2020 election.
The move, which was expected, is Ms. Willis’s last chance to hold on to the prosecution, which stemmed from an investigation she began nearly four years ago.
Georgia’s Court of Appeals disqualified Ms. Willis and her entire office from the matter last month, in a 2-to-1 decision handed down by a panel of three judges appointed by Republican governors. That decision reversed the ruling of the trial judge, who had allowed Ms. Willis to keep the case despite revelations about a romantic relationship she had had with the lawyer she hired to manage the prosecution.
“No Georgia court has ever disqualified a district attorney for the mere appearance of impropriety without the existence of an actual conflict of interest,” Ms. Willis’s office wrote in its filing submitted late Wednesday night. “And no Georgia court has ever reversed a trial court’s order declining to disqualify a prosecutor based solely on an appearance of impropriety.”
The chances that Ms. Willis will have her disqualification reversed are not seen as good, because of the largely Republican makeup of the state’s highest court. And if her effort fails, the prosecution is seen as unlikely to continue. The case’s fate would fall to a Republican-led state panel.
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