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Fani Willis hearing: Judge to hear final arguments over removal
newsnationnow.com ^ | MAR 1, 2024 | Elizabeth Prann

Posted on 03/01/2024 6:43:22 AM PST by V_TWIN

ATLANTA (NewsNation) — The judge in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump is set to hear final legal arguments Friday over whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the prosecution over a romantic relationship with another prosecutor on the case.

Attorneys for Trump and other defendants in the election case argue Willis’ romantic relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she hired, poses a conflict of interest. They allege Willis paid Wade large sums for his work and then improperly benefited when he paid for vacations for the two of them.

Willis and Wade have acknowledged the relationship, which they said ended last summer, but they have argued it does not create any conflict and has no bearing on the case. They said they didn’t begin dating until spring 2022, after Wade was hired, and they split travel expenses.

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1 posted on 03/01/2024 6:43:22 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Fani wins and Trump will have to pay her $450 million ? LOL


2 posted on 03/01/2024 6:44:25 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: V_TWIN

Meanwhile, Fulton County, GA is still in the midst of a ransomware situation.


3 posted on 03/01/2024 6:44:52 AM PST by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: V_TWIN

Fani skates watch and see. This was a non starter from day one.


4 posted on 03/01/2024 6:48:14 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: V_TWIN

I have zero faith in our judicial system. The Left has gone nuclear and we’ve lost any sense of justice.


5 posted on 03/01/2024 6:48:16 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: V_TWIN

The judge is an inexperienced ‘RAT squish who donated to Fannypack’s campaign for DA. Nothing is going to happen.


6 posted on 03/01/2024 6:55:54 AM PST by twister881
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To: twister881

Rats judging their own misbehavior and lawlessness. What could go wrong?!


7 posted on 03/01/2024 6:58:47 AM PST by Moorings
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To: V_TWIN

Closing arguments should be interesting.

Meanwhile, the GOP is looking for someone to run against Willis for Fulton DA.

https://archive.is/XEtMl

“Critics aim to take Fani Willis’ removal fight to the ballot box”


8 posted on 03/01/2024 6:59:26 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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Fulton is majority black.

43% Black to 37% White.

If she is allowed to run again she will win in a landslide........think Marion Barry


9 posted on 03/01/2024 7:04:14 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: CFW

“Meanwhile, the GOP is looking for someone to run against Willis for Fulton DA.”

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Competence and lack of criminality make no difference at all, when racism rears its head. She’s black is all that matters. Not one person be blacker in Atlanta...home of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hosea Williams, Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young, Southern Poverty Law Center. Why any white person would choose to live there boggles the mind.

Whenever I travel North to the mountains, I always go out my way to drive around Fulton-Dekalb Counties...that hot bed of racism.


10 posted on 03/01/2024 7:13:18 AM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: V_TWIN

DEI trumps the law. Silly rabbit, law is for kids.


11 posted on 03/01/2024 7:20:18 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: V_TWIN

Oh, she will be re-elected. IF she is allowed to run again.


Fulton County Board of Ethics to take up MULTIPLE ETHICS COMPLAINTS referencing Fulton County DA Fani Willis..

Newly scheduled “special meeting” will be OPEN TO THE PUBLIC..

WILL TRUMP SHOW UP?

WHERE: Fulton County’s Government Center / 4th floor main conference room

WHEN: Thursday March 7th at 10am


12 posted on 03/01/2024 7:21:15 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: cdcdawg

Bkmk


13 posted on 03/01/2024 7:25:33 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: V_TWIN

Ballotpedia
Municipal elections in Fulton County, Georgia (2020)

District attorney
Fani Willis defeated [Democrat] incumbent Paul Howard Jr. with 72% of the vote to his 28% [in the primary runoff]. Howard had held the office [for 24 years] since 1997. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote, “Leading up to Democratic primary on June 9, the race had largely been a referendum on Howard’s 24 years in office, particularly the last year.” In another article the Journal-Constitution also wrote, “As the runoff nears, both candidates have been fiercely attacking one another, both during online debates and in ads. Howard has criticized Willis for accepting donations from police unions. Willis has condemned the DA for the sexual harassment complaints filed against him. (Howard strongly denies the allegations.)”

Note: 24 years is the 4th or 5th longest term for a county DA across the country.

Fani Willis was unopposed in the general election.

The biggest problem in Fulton County is that the Republicans ran NO CANDIDATES in any of the countywide offices in 2020. You got to put up a fight if you want to stay in the game.

[Here in Cumberland County Maine, the political leadership has done the same thing. I am trying to change that.]

Fulton County is not completely democrat. They have at least Republicans on the board of commissioners elected in 2020. The also elected an additional Republican in 2022, but defeated an incumbent republican. Again they did not run any candidate for the county wide chairperson seat ceding that position to the Democrats.

The incumbent Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairperson Robb Pitts won election in the general election for Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairperson on November 8, 2022.

An unopposed county office like that provides a bellwether of voter turnout. The Governor’s race turnout is also import data point.

Demographic Data for Fulton County, Georgia
Fulton County Population: 1,066,710
Georgia Population: 10,711,908
(10% of the state)

Registered Voters: 752,646

2022 VOTER TURNOUT
Ballots Cast: 421,396
Robb Pitts (D): 348,332
Governor’s race: 419,884

So more people actually voted for the Chairperson of the county commission than valid votes for governor.

Having candidates running for county office may have increased turnout from 55% to 60% or more. Some people come out to vote for their local friends.


14 posted on 03/01/2024 8:24:49 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: V_TWIN

i wonderhow much more Terrence Bradley type

weasely speculation

we will hear /-)


15 posted on 03/01/2024 9:40:03 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: cuz1961

Last time I saw something like what Trumps lawyers did to Bradley Joe Pesci was gettin’ beat to death with a baseball bat in the movie Casino. Lol!


16 posted on 03/01/2024 9:44:08 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: 1Old Pro

I agree. Fani is a nepo-baby and Georgia is in the middle of a battle for the hearts and minds of the people. That police training facility is being used as a political organizing tool. Antifa recruits, dressed in black bloc outfits attacked banks in Tucson this week, saying that the world needs to learn of the threat that the GA training facility poses. They aren’t going to let their judicial nepo-baby go down.


17 posted on 03/01/2024 9:52:30 AM PST by Eva
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To: V_TWIN

here we go

it wasnt delayed

its starting folks


18 posted on 03/01/2024 10:03:04 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: cuz1961

One thing you won’t see today......HER.


19 posted on 03/01/2024 10:27:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: cuz1961

Judge McAfee seems not to want to hear too much about the evidence in closing arguments.


20 posted on 03/01/2024 10:45:48 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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