> “There is no controlling legal authority.”
i hear that.
an issue might be that the georgia judiciary has its own ethics board, which however seems focused on judges (not DAs).
sooo, the wiggle room for fani might be that (analogous to the federal level) georgia state is comprised of three branches of government, executive, legislative, and judiciary, and each branch is meant to have have checks and balances over the other, but not absolute power over each other.
This article may be relevant to the situation:
https://news.yahoo.com/citing-constitutional-separation-power-ga-012811201.html
It was actually a quote from Al Gore, when he got caught taking money from foreign groups.