{"id":140209,"date":"2024-12-20T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=140209"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:38:31","slug":"fani-willis-disqualified-as-da-in-donald-trumps-election-racketeering-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=140209","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fani Willis disqualified as DA in Donald Trump&#8217;s election racketeering case&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/12\/19\/fani-willis-disqualified-donald-trump-georgia\/77084544007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a>: &#8220;A divided Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified the prosecutor in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;state election racketeering case on Thursday, ruling&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2024\/02\/15\/live-updates-fani-willis-hearing-donald-trump-election-fraud-case\/72605566007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis<\/a>&nbsp;carried the appearance of impropriety in her decisions about who to prosecute and what charges to bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Willis had acknowledged a romantic relationship with a special counsel she hired onto the case, Nathan Wade. After fiery hearings earlier this year, Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee ruled Willis showed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2024\/03\/15\/donald-trump-georgia-prosecutor-takeaways\/72984706007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;a tremendous lapse in judgment&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;but that she could remain on the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But Trump and eight other defendants in the sprawling prosecution appealed that decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The appeals panel voted 2-1 to disqualify Willis, throwing the continuation of the case into doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: &#8220;A divided Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified the prosecutor in&nbsp;President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s&nbsp;state election racketeering case on Thursday, ruling&nbsp;Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis&nbsp;carried the appearance of impropriety in her decisions about who to prosecute and what charges to bring. Willis had acknowledged a romantic relationship with a special counsel she hired onto the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140210,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140209\/revisions\/140210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}