The Georgia Court of Appeals decided Thursday to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from the sweeping election subversion case she brought last year against President-elect Donald Trump.
A three-judge panel ruled 2–1 that a lower court had “erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis” after Trump and several co-defendants uncovered a previously undisclosed relationship Willis had with the case’s lead special prosecutor, Nathan Wade.
“The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times,” the panel wrote in a 31-page order.
At the lower court level, Judge Scott McAfee had considered Trump and his co-defendants’ request this year that Willis be disqualified and the case be tossed out entirely because of Willis’s…
