Judge expected to decide Fani Willis’s fate in Trump case on Friday

Published March 15, 2024 7:00am ET



Friday marks the end of the self-imposed two-week deadline set by a judge to decide whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia election interference case.

Two weeks ago, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee finished hearing dozens of hours of testimony concerning the allegation that Willis’s romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, one of the case’s top prosecutors, amounts to a conflict of interest and that could result in her removal from the case. Now he’s expected to issue his final decision on Friday.

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