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What does this mean for the case going forward?

A state appeals court on Thursday removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others but did not dismiss the indictment, leaving the future of the prosecution uncertain.

The case against Trump and more than a dozen others had already been largely stalled for months while the Georgia Court of Appeals considered the pretrial appeal.

The new ruling means it will be up to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to find another prosecutor to take over the case and to decide whether to continue to pursue it, though that could be delayed if Willis decides to appeal to the state Supreme Court.

But whether it is ultimately Willis or another prosecutor in charge, it seems unlikely that a prosecution against Trump could continue while he’s President for the next four years. But there are 14 other defendants who still face charges.

Two federal criminal cases against Trump have already been abandoned after the Republican won the presidency in November. Meanwhile, a Judge in New York has refused to throw out his hush money conviction from earlier this year, though the future of that case is uncertain.

A grand jury in Atlanta indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023, accusing them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn Trump’s narrow 2020 Presidential Election loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the state. Four of them have since pleaded guilty after reaching deals with prosecutors. Trump and the others have pleaded not guilty.

Trump and some of the remaining defendants tried to get Willis and her office removed from the case and to have the case dismissed. They argued that her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created a conflict of interest and that she made improper public statements about the case.

Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March that no conflict of interest existed that should force Willis off the case. Trump and the others appealed that ruling.

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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.

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EARL PITTS "SAGE PATRIOT" AMERICAN
December 19, 2024 at 6:45 pm

Good evening Sage Patriots & Dook 4 Brains Leftys,
Its just so gratifying to watch these “Propped Up” “Heros” of the Harris/Biden “Dookministration” fall from grace as “The @ss Clowns” that they have been all along.
As a “Sage Patriot” it makes me “Relax My Political Sphincter” and rejoice that I never was a “Dook 4 Brains Lefty”.
Thank you, Sage Patriots & Dook 4 Brains Leftys,
EARL PITTS “SAGE PATRIOT” AMERICAN
KathrynA
December 21, 2024 at 10:08 am

I don’t approve of the affair, but not sure how this possibly affects the case as they were both on the same side and the Trump people seem to think it’s perfectly okay for the people they are nominating to have all sorts of sexual abuse and affairs in their background; including Trump himself. Everyone just capitulates to this evil man and now, the most prominent case falls. So sad!
SuzyQ
December 22, 2024 at 2:42 am

Anyone familiar with all the misconduct (and not just inappropriate in-office sexual relationship — ironically and hypocritically, one of the issues of her political campaign) of the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, is not surprised by the ruling of the Georgia appeals court, which simply upheld the rule of law. It was proven her office had inappropriate communications with the Biden administration, hence, lawfare.
- Earl Pitts American
  December 24, 2024 at 11:27 am
  
  Thank you, SuzyQ,
  I think I LOVE YOU,
  Earl Pitts American
- Azrael
  December 28, 2024 at 10:32 am
  
  Sure push it to a 3 member appeals court where 2 are Republican cronies and 1 lameduck Dem.
  Funny they never lay out the supposed violations she did.
  
  As far as having an affair the is Trump 101. You are expected to have an affair. It’s how he stays in power.
  Look at all the Hags he surrounds himself with.
  Get in line Q.
EARL PITTS "SAGE PATRIOT" AMERICAN
December 22, 2024 at 6:12 pm

…..AND FINALLY:
This is a Dook 4 Brains Leftist @ss Press artical in which the A. P. tries to paint The HotMlLF Fani in the best light possable.
HOWEVER:
The artical is an “EPIC FAIL” in that respect.
I, EARL PITTS “SAGE PATRIOT” AMERICAN, expect this will likely be the last “LET’S SAVE THE HOTTY HOT MlLF FANI artical that the Dook 4 Brains Leftist @ss Press [FKA The Associated Press] will attempt and we will likely need to follow THE HOTTY HOT MlLF FANI’s Fall from Grace on Conservative Media Henceforth.
Thank you to all fans of EARL PITTS “SAGE PATRIOT” AMERICAN be ye Sage Patriot, Dook 4 Brains Lefty, or Dook 4 Brains RINO,
EARL PITTS “SAGE PATRIOT” AMERICAN.
*ps should I, EARL PITTS “SAGE PATRIOT” AMERICAN, determine, in my Sage Wisdom, that any re-visiting of the subject of THE HOTTY HOT MlLF FANI’s Fall from Grace, is warrented, I, EARL PITTS “SAGE PATRIOT” AMERICAN, I will bring it to you as Breaking News.*
Ocean Joe
December 25, 2024 at 4:40 pm

I hope Donald gets those 11,780 votes he was demanding they find, for Christmas. I mean it was a perfect phone call, wasn’t it? Threatening, maybe, but hey, isn’t that how the Corleones did it?