Trump attorneys file to disqualify Fani Willis from election fraud case despite prosecutor stepping aside

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Former President Donald Trump’s defense team filed a motion on Monday seeking to dismiss and disqualify embattled Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election fraud case.

Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in the case, asked the court to immediately remove Willis. The filing comes days after the judge overseeing the case ruled she could stay on as long as special prosecutor Nathan Wade stepped aside, following the revelation of their romantic relationship.

Sadow claims in his motion that action does not go far enough and is asking to appeal the decision.

“President Trump and seven defendants have jointly filed a motion requesting the Court to grant a certificate of immediate review of its order denying dismissal of the case and disqualification of Fulton County DA Willis,” Sadow said in a statement.

“The motion notes that the Court found that Willis’ actions created an appearance of impropriety and an ‘odor of mendacity’ that lingers in this case, but it nonetheless refused to dismiss the case or disqualify her,” he added.

Alongisde Trump, seven of the 14 remaining defendants joined the motion: Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Robert Cheeley, Michael Roman, David Shafer, Harrison Floyd and Cathleen Latham.

“The motion further notes that the Court found Georgia case law lacks controlling precedent for the standard for disqualification of a prosecuting attorney for forensic misconduct. For these reasons among others, the Court’s Order is ripe for pretrial appellate review,” Sadow concluded.

The attorneys’ filing came after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee gave Wade and Willis their ultimatum on Friday in a much anticipated ruling over the racketeering case.

Wade stepped down hours later, allowing Willis to stay on.

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[Paladin2]

Steve Sadow is not wrong.

The USA legal system is broken.

[CatOwner]

Can’t imagine this being successful. The buzzsaw is ramping up, and the leftists won’t stop until Trump is a lot poorer and destroyed. Conservatives will just shrug and hope the right thing happens, as the have for the past several decades. A recipe for disaster. I’m praying for God to step in and wipe the slate clean. The sooner, the better. Man is incapable of correcting the death spiral. This death by a thousand cuts is no way to live a life.

[Revel]

Know how corrupt the courts in this country are they will probably re-instate Wade in response.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

She lied under oath.

She should not just be taken off the case, she should be terminated and disbarred.

[frnewsjunkie]

That judge donated to willis’ campaign in the past.. He should have dropped out.

[George J. Jetso]

The judge is corrupt and should be removed from office along with dirty Fani Willis.

[Political Junkie Too]

Another factor to consider is that this judge may likely lose his seat while the trial is still ongoing, so what happens if McAfee loses his reelection primary on May 12?

Does McAfee stay on the case as a lame duck judge or does he recuse himself and let another judge take over the case?

If McAfee remains on the case and it delays past the November election, what happens when the new judge is sworn in? Will that judge take McAfee's cases or will another judge be assigned to McAfee's cases?

And finally, if and when the trial completes and either the state or the defendants file their appeals, what will happen when McAfee is no longer on the bench as the judge in the trial?

Bottom line, if McAfee loses his primary race in May, should he immediately step down as the trial judge for consistency in the trial? Will that be another delay as the new judge needs to be brought up to speed on the details of the case?

-PJ

[Liz]

The Judge passed the buck and extricated himself from a sticky wicket. He knows the Ga Bar Association, state and federal agencies also have Fani under a microscope. The judge figured
he’ll let them finish the job.

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Remember, th Ga bar, federal and state investigations of Fani
Willis are far from over and are enough to get her disbarred:
<><>she needs to explain her tax-paid meetings at the White House
<><>her contacts with Jack Smith,
<><>her contacts w/ the J6 committee Trump haters,
<><>why she stored campaign cash in her house
<><>She leaked grand jury testimony to Michael Isikoff for his book about her “integrity”
<><>she had hold of an illegally recorded conversation
<><>she made this illegality one of the pillars of the Trump case
<><>a GA County DA cannot immunize testimony WRT a violation of FL state law.
<><>a DA poisoning the Jury Pool is unheard of
<><>and she went to church to do the poisoning.
<><>she falsified cell phone location tracking data (usually puts people in prison)
<><>she lied to a judge,
<><>she committed perjury in a court of law,
<><>she fired a subordinate whistleblower WRT her abuse of a $500k federal grant.

[Vaduz]

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit that all the DA’s in Trump’s cases have a lot of dirt on them to hide they were selected for a reason by the you know who D.C. tribe.