Fulton County District Prosecutor, Fani Willis, will continue to be disqualified to process the case of electoral interference against President Donald Trump and others, after Georgia’s Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear his appeal of the matter.
“The members of the public may be interested in the underlying case to this request for Certioari,” said the concurrent opinion. “But our approach to the evaluation of giving the review under our CertioRi jurisdiction is in Georgia’s law.”
In a dissident opinion, Judge Carla McMillian wrote the case “guarantees a reconsideration, and the problem is likely to be repeated.”
Tuesday’s ruling on the case of criminal extortion seems to end the legal saga of almost two years that derail the prosecution, which began in January 2024 after Willis was first accused of misconduct by Michael Roman, one of Trump’s encodes, for his relationship with one of the prosecutors in the case.
An independent agency, the Georgia Prosecutor’s Office, will now have the task of assigning an independent prosecutor to take care of the case and determine its destination.
In a statement, Willis said “I do not agree” with the decision, but said that the process of delivering the case to the Council would begin.
“I hope whoever is assigned to handle the case has the courage to do what they demand and the law,” said Willis.
Fani Willis, Fulton County District Prosecutor speaks with Associated Press, on October 22, 2024, in Atlanta.
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A lawyer from President Trump, Steve Sadow, celebrating the ruling, saying that the court “correctly denied the review.”
“This appropriate decision should end the unjust political persecutions of the president’s law,” said Sadow.
Trump and another 18 declared themselves innocent in August 2023 of all positions in an accusation of extortion for alleged efforts to cancel the results of the 2020 presidential elections in the state of Georgia.
The charges, which were presented after the telephone call of January 2, 2021 of Trump, asked the Secretary of State for Georgia, Brad Raffensperger. “Find” the votes He needed to win the State, claim that the defendants requested state leaders throughout the country, harassed and deceived an electoral worker from Georgia, and pressed false statements that the elections were stolen, all in an effort for Trump to remain in power despite his electoral loss.
The defendants Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Scott Hall later made guilt agreements in exchange for accepting testifying against other defendants.
Trump has criticized the investigation of the district prosecutor as politically motivated.
