With the last Donald Trump criminal case on the line, Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, asked Georgia’s highest court on Wednesday to make the last call on whether the president-elect’s charges should be handed to a new prosecutor.
Georgia’s appeals court removed Willis from the case last month, citing the “appearance of impropriety” created by her relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The district attorney’s filing with the Georgia supreme court argues that appearances are not good enough – and were not good enough for the trial court, which allowed Willis to continue the prosecution – and that the 2-1 appellate decision created a new standard for removing a prosecutor, something that should not be left to an appellate court, given the stakes.
