Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be disqualified and removed from President-elect Donald Trump's prosecution over his and his allies' efforts to subvert the state's 2020 election results, a Georgia appeals court ruled Thursday.
The decision throws the case into further disarray and is poised to bring it to a screeching halt as Trump assumes office in 2025. It comes months after the trial court ruled Willis, who the president-elect's lawyers accused of improperly benefiting from hiring a romantic partner as a lead prosecutor, could continue to oversee the case if that prosecutor resigned.
