The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis created a conflict of interest and should be removed from the case against former President Donald Trump for alleged election interference. Willis is appealing the decision, but the state Attorney General, who is running for governor, is urging the Georgia Supreme Court to uphold the lower court’s ruling.
earlier this month by the Georgia Court of Appeals, which found a “significant appearance of impropriety” in her handling of the criminal prosecution of the 45th president. The embattled DA’s office immediately filed a notice of intent to ask the Georgia Supreme Court to review the lower court’s ruling.
“The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that the Fulton County DA created her own conflict and rightfully removed her from the case against President-elect Trump,” read aGeorgia appeals court disqualifies Fani Willis from Trump election interference case “As such, I would encourage the Georgia Supreme Court to not take her appeal,” Carr continued. “It’s our hope that the DA will now focus taxpayer resources on the successful prosecution of violent criminals in Fulton County.” Willis fired back at Carr, arguing that the state official was “trying to influence” a case for which he was“Mr. Carr is a witness in the case he is trying to influence,” Willis said in a statement, obtained by the“If Mr. Carr cannot separate his ambition to become Governor from his duties as Attorney General, he should resign and focus on being a full-time candidate rather than serving as a constitutional officer sworn to uphold the Constitutions and laws of the United States and Georgia,” she added.that he is running to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in the Peach State’s 2026 gubernatorial election. Willis accused Trump of attempting to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election in her sprawling racketeering case against the president-elect and 18 co-defendants.Willis was booted from the Trump case over her decision to hire and extravagantly pay her now ex-lover Nathan Wade as a special prosecuto
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