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   From: screw.your.reparations@cbs.com   
      
   The Georgia appeals court’s decision to disqualify Fulton County District   
   Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the 2020 election interference case   
   against Trump has launched the ongoing case into chaos. State officials must   
   now find someone to fill    
   her role, a process that could, at best, bring things to a screeching   
   halt—or kill the case altogether.   
      
   The court announced Thursday that it had overturned a decision by Judge Scott   
   McAfee allowing Willis to remain on the case after she faced accusations of   
   having an improper relationship with Nathan Wade, her special prosecutor.   
   McAfee said Willis could    
   remain on the case if she cut ties with Wade.   
      
   Trump and eight of his 18 co-defendants had appealed the ruling, and the   
   Georgia appeals court decided that the “appearance of impropriety” was   
   just too much. While the indictment would not be dismissed, Willis’s   
   “disqualification is mandated and    
   no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of   
   these proceedings,” according to Thursday’s court filing.   
      
   The appeals court’s decision doesn’t just knock Willis out of the   
   driver’s seat, though—it disqualifies her entire office from trying the   
   case.   
      
   Willis’s office filed a notice Thursday afternoon indicating that it intends   
   to appeal the court’s decision, which, if taken up, could move the case to   
   Georgia’s Supreme Court.   
      
   In the meantime, Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the nonpartisan   
   Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, will be responsible for   
   determining who will take up the task of prosecuting the president-elect and   
   his co-defendants, Lawfare’s    
   senior editor Anna Bower wrote on X. But she warned that’s easier said than   
   done.   
      
   “Realistically, it will be quite difficult to find another prosecutor who   
   would be willing to take on this case. *If* the appeals court decision is not   
   overturned by the GA Supreme Court, this likely spells the end of the   
   prosecution against Trump and    
   others in Fulton County,” Bower wrote.   
      
   https://newrepublic.com/post/189576/donald-trump-fani-willis-georgia-what-next   
      
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