Fani Willis disqualified from Trump RICO case

Published December 19, 2024 9:58am ET



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.

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