Fulton County DA Fani Willis Appeals Disqualification From Trump Election Case

The Georgia prosecutor who brought a case against President-elect Donald Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants appealed a court ruling that disqualified her amid allegations of impropriety. The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled late last year that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office couldn’t prosecute Trump and the others due to the “appearance of impropriety” that was created when she engaged in a relationship with her former special counsel, Nathan Wade, who she hired to help with the case. Willis, an elected Democrat, asked the state Supreme Court to reverse that lower court’s decision late Wednesday, arguing it “overreached the Court of Appeals’ authority” and created a new standard for disqualifying a prosecutor....