The Georgia attorney hired to help prosecute former President Donald Trump over an alleged effort to subvert the 2020 election is seeking to block his former law partner from speaking to the judge who is weighing if Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the case.
Willis’s hired special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, filed his motion on Thursday, just days after an unprecedented evidentiary hearing in which Wade’s former law partner Terrence Bradley refused to answer questions he believed could violate attorney-client privilege.
Wade’s motion raised similar concerns over Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s request to meet with Bradley behind closed doors during a private hearing on Monday.
“If the Court were now to disregard ‘the most sacred of all legally recognized privileges’ whose ‘preservation is essential to the just and orderly operation of our legal system,’ it would be a step too far,” Wade wrote in his motion.
Wade contends that Trump’s co-defendants, who have accused Willis of misconduct related to her romantic relationship with the attorney she hired, have already been granted too much leeway by the judge during the two-day hearing in Georgia last week that flooded television screens across the nation.
The allegations against Willis were first raised in a mid-January motion by Trump co-defendant Mike Roman, prompting the former president and several other defendants to join the motion that seeks to disqualify Willis and toss the charges against them.
Bradley is slated to have the in-camera hearing with McAfee on Feb. 26 after the two-day hearing last week in which he could barely answer questions during his testimony due to objections from both parties in the case.
It’s not immediately clear how McAfee will weigh in on Wade’s motion or if it will prompt any delay in the proceedings over whether to disqualify Willis or keep her on the case.
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Barring no further delays in his consideration, McAfee could issue a decision over whether Willis will continue to be the lead prosecutor on the case sometime next week.
Meanwhile, the Fulton County Board of Ethics is slated to discuss two ethics complaints against Willis during its March 7 meeting, which will be open to the public.
