Posted on 10/03/2024 10:47:54 AM PDT by CFW
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - The Georgia Court of Appeals is set to review Judge Scott McAfee’s decision to deny a motion to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the high-profile election interference case involving former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.
The motion, filed in January by Trump’s co-defendant and former White House staffer Michael Roman, sought to disqualify Willis due to an alleged improper relationship with former Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade. Roman’s motion also claimed that Willis financially benefited from the investigation and her connection with Wade.
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The Georgia Court of Appeals will not hear new evidence but will review previously presented materials to determine if McAfee’s ruling to keep Willis on the case was appropriate. The losing party will have the option to appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court, potentially further delaying the case from proceeding to trial.
Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted in August 2023 for allegedly interfering in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. While four co-defendants have reached plea deals, Trump and the remaining defendants have pleaded not guilty. Arguments before the appeals court are scheduled for tomorrow.
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So all of the Trump lawfare cases seem to be ratcheting up again with about 30+ days out from the election. Just a coincidence I guess.
2 assassination attempts failed, so back to lawfare.
No sarcasm tag.
Don’t know who the judges are...but looks like Republican heavy..
If that's the "bar", she's gone. Of course she financially benefitted, the boyfriend was paying for extensive travel for her with his new found "job"
Yet again: how is it that any county prosecutor can just decide to charge the President when they don’t like what he’s doing?
As far as “grand jury indictment”, that’s a joke. We all know about indicting the ham sandwich. A prosecutor can pull together a bunch of bums off the streets, hand them some per diem and get any kind of indictment needed.
In the case of Willis, she found a deranged child with wild eyes to be the jury foreman, who then admitted on national tv that she voted to indict Trump on political grounds. That alone should have resulted in the entire matter being dropped and a state level investigation of the grand jury selection should have been conducted.
The Presidency is not supposed to be omnipotent but it’s also not supposed to be subordinate to municipal lawfare. That’s ONE of the reasons Presidential immunity exists.
RE: Just a coincidence I guess.
In the Magic Christian, Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers find a ticket on their parked car. Starr first wonders if it’s really an “advert” but then they see it isn’t. As a policeman approaches.
Starr: Could be routine.
Sellers: Could be. Or it could be mere damnable harrassment.
She should have been gone the day they found out about this “relationship”.
Why do the wheels of justice turn so very slowly in this country? Everyone knows what a weak, fraudulent case this is.
It’s Georgia Jim no bets.
UGH, of course.
As a reminder, the indictments are based on a phone call made into Atlanta (Fulton County), the state capital by President Trump. So Trump does not even need set foot in a state to be indicted on felony charges.
Does that put perjury on the table for Willis?
She said she and Wade ended their relationship a year before he joined the prosecution, but they've been seen together publicly as a couple several times since then.
-PJ
I’m well aware of the alleged incident and the misconstrual of an offhand remark. Amplifying simple things like that into some sort of cosmic conspiracy is the hallmark of “trumped up charges” and is the reason, once again, that immunity for such claims is built into the Constitution.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-5-1/ALDE_00013392/
Mr. Trump was the President of the United States and as such the chief law enforcement officer of the government. He was witness to a massive criminal campaign to overturn the real results of the 2020 election, something we all saw by 6 AM on November 5th, 2020. Personally I thought it would result in civil war, and realistically, we are in a low grade version of such right now. But at the time, Mr. Trump was doing his duty. The fact that it would benefit him was a collateral point, and that’s the crux of the so-called charges. Making an offhand remark to that effect is the sole basis of the county crooks, and it hardly rises to the level of election interference when it is obvious to any reasonable person that their behavior was far worse. The whitewash of Wanda Freeman et al shows that.
So spare me the lugubrious and unctious reminders. Criminalizing even the tiniest thing he says has been the hallmark of all the laughable charges against the man who should be President.
Criminalizing even the tiniest thing he says has been the hallmark of all the laughable charges against the man who should be President.
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