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Morning Joe Legal Analyst on Fani Willis: This Office 'Mess' Means She Should Step Aside
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 02/19/2024 7:42:17 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: odawg
I am sure she will be forced to step aside as a distraction to protect the hoax investigation and trial so it can be continued.My understanding is that the presiding judge once worked for Willis. It's telling that Willis arrogantly disrespected the court and judge in her testimony and there was crickets from the judge. In any other court, she would have been threatened with contempt of court.
Bottom line: (1) The case is being held in Fulton county Georgia where skin color (black) carries weight and influence. (2) Kemp is a feckless anti-trump governor. (3) Fani is a black female - the powers that be in Fulton county and the nation will run cover for and whitewash (no pun intended) Fani's outrageous criminal behavior.
Unless Fani steps aside on her own, don't be surprised that she will be allowed to continue as Trump's prosecutor.
To: kjam22
One would think the state bar would be interested too. He paid for trips with his business credit card, then received cash from Fani, but didn’t remit that cash to the firm. Looks like he was stealing from the company.
To: Liz
Fanni Willis knew N. Wade when she appointed him in a administrative position on her “ team” while she was lead prosecutor in the Atlanta Public Schools Scandal of 2014.
Willis’s wiki mentions her as lead prosecutor with no mention of Wade .
Wades bio says “ he prosecuted” in this case in 2014 which is a large stretch of the truth. He only had “administrative”
duties.
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posted on
02/19/2024 9:20:12 AM PST
by
thesligoduffyflynns
(WHEN 💎GOING THROUGH KEEP GOING💎 IF IT DOESNT KiILL YOU IT will MAKE YOU STRONGER💎)
To: Betty Jane
Staye bat does investigate Dhimmicrats.
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posted on
02/19/2024 9:24:21 AM PST
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isnt free)
To: hoosierham
State bar doesn’t investigate Dhimmicrats.
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posted on
02/19/2024 9:25:39 AM PST
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isnt free)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
It seems that there was a lot of evidence that was being given to the judge showing that the affair began before Wade was hired by Willis. The judge has to decide if it is to remain confidential. The Trump team seemed to try to get as much of it on the record as possible, and suggested that if the other side had conspired to defraud the court, they would lose attorney client privilege. When the Willis team threw Wade’s divorce attorney under the bus, I believe they may have created an enemy with all the goods on them, and nothing to lose.
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posted on
02/19/2024 9:41:08 AM PST
by
JoeRed
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
02/19/2024 9:53:41 AM PST
by
ptsal
(Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
To: thesligoduffyflynns
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posted on
02/19/2024 10:08:19 AM PST
by
Liz
(Matthew 11.28-30: Come tome, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
view the video here.Love you and your work, you're good egg.
But under no circumstances would I ever view a video of those psychopaths.
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posted on
02/19/2024 10:10:56 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
To: Lazamataz
Thanks, and LOL: I understand.
Watching Morning Joe is my penance. I watch so others don’t have to. :-)
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02/19/2024 10:15:28 AM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
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To: JoeRed
My question is, what bona fide reason do Wade/Willis have for asserting attorney/client privilege to keep Bradley’s testimony out of the record?
The inescapable inference is that the testimony, if allowed, would prove that the relationship began before Willis hired Wade, and thus that Wade lied in his affidavit, and Willis lied by extension by submitting his affidavit in support of her position.
Why wouldn’t this be similar to a defendant taking the fifth? In a criminal trial, that cannot be taken as an admission of guilt, but in a civil trial, it can. Although the charges against Trump and co-defendants are criminal, in this hearing there is no criminal issue. Therefore, why isn’t the judge permitted to infer that the claim of privilege to keep the testimony out is an admission?
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02/19/2024 10:21:08 AM PST
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governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
That’s a good question. The hearing was regarding a motion by the defense in a criminal trial to have the prosecutor disqualified. It’s not a civil trial and the prosecutor is not a defendant. The judge hasn’t made a determination yet if Attorney/Client privilege applies. He is, however, admitting the evidence under seal for now. The Trump team is getting as much as they can on record, seemingly to force a criminal investigation into Willis and Wade.
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posted on
02/19/2024 11:46:59 AM PST
by
JoeRed
To: Liz
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posted on
02/19/2024 12:57:31 PM PST
by
thesligoduffyflynns
(WHEN 💎GOING THROUGH KEEP GOING💎 IF IT DOESNT KiILL YOU IT will MAKE YOU STRONGER💎)
To: JesusIsLord
My understanding is that the presiding judge once worked for Willis. Comparing the work histories of both Judge Scott McAfee and Fani Willis, it looks to like McAfee was the rising star and his stint under Willis was incidental.
Consider:
- Willis graduated from Emory University School of Law in 1996, taking a job as a solicitor prosecuting misdemeanors and city ordinance violations.
- McAfee graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law, cum laude, in 2013, interning for Georgia Supreme Court justice Keith R. Blackwell in his senior year. McAfee's first assignment was an assistant district attorney in the Barrow County, Georgia, Piedmont Judicial Circuit.
- Willis spent 16 years as a prosecutor in the Fulton County district attorney's office, eventually leading the complex trial division.
- In 2014-2015 (+18 years from graduation), Willis became an assistant district attorney, prosecuting 12 Atlanta Public School teachers for changing answers entered by students to inflate the scores of state administered standardized tests.
- McAfee joined the office of the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia in 2015 (+2 years after graduating) Between 2015-2018, he worked on the early stages of criminal cases, and was promoted to working as a prosecutor in the complex trial division (under Fani Willis).
- In 2018 (+22), Willis went into private practice. she ran for a seat on the Fulton County Superior Court, and lost.
- In 2019 (+6), McAfee was appointed as an assistant United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
- In 2019 (+23), Willis became Chief Municipal Judge for South Fulton, Georgia.
- In 2021 (+8), Georgia governor Brian Kemp appointed McAfee as the state inspector general.
- In 2020 (+24), Willis was elected district attorney for Fulton County.
- In December 2022 (+9), Gov. Kemp appointed McAfee to the Fulton County Superior Court.
It's pretty clear from comparing the timelines of their careers, that McAfee spent two years early in his career in the division headed by Willis. He was then fast-tracked into higher positions in the judiciary departments.
Willis looks like her career stalled after spending 22 years in the Fulton County District Attorney's office. She left to pursue private practice and lower court judgeships. Willis ran for DA against her former boss Paul Howard, Jr.
Now, here's the real kick-in-the-pants:
- During the campaign, Howard was accused of violating public disclosure laws when he used his two nonprofy
- Also during the campaign, Howard was accused of sexual harassment, abuse of power, and creating a hostile work environment by Cathy Carter, a paralegal and records supervisor who worked under Howard's tenure for 15 years. Carter claimed that Howard sexually harassed her and coerced her into engaging in intimate activities, including encounters within his office at the Fulton County Courthouse. Howard was found not guilty in December 2023.
It seems like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree over at the Fulton County District Attorney's office.
-PJ
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posted on
02/19/2024 1:56:08 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
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