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Sam Levine in New York

Tense Fani Willis hearing ends as judge plans to decide on disqualification

 Fani Willis in court on Friday.
Fani Willis in court on Friday. Photograph: Alex Slitz/Reuters

Lawyers presented their closing arguments on Friday afternoon in a three-day evidentiary hearing to determine whether the district attorney, Fani Willis, should be disqualified from the election interference prosecution against Donald Trump because of her romantic relationship with a deputy handling the case.

The hearing was the coda to a dramatic deviation from the racketeering case against the former US president and 14 remaining co-defendants for trying to overturn the election in Georgia.

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