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Any rational person familiar with the behavior of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis during the prosecutorial misconduct hearings that finally ended last Friday has probably concluded that her conduct has created the “appearance of impropriety.” This, according to defense lawyers for former President Trump and several co-defendants, is sufficient to disqualify Willis and the Fulton County DA’s office from prosecuting the RICO case they launched last August. Indeed, defense attorney Harry MacDougald cited six examples of actual conflicts of interest, any one of which is sufficient to disqualify Willis and her office. Yet it’s unlikely that it will happen....

Atlanta attorney Harry MacDougald is our old Rathergate friend. He helped us get the ball rolling in “The 61st minute” on the morning of September 9, 2004. Writing under the screen name Buckhead, Harry observed in comment number 47 of Free Republic’s Rathergate thread: “I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. This should be pursued aggressively.” Life has never been quite the same since we took his cue and followed up. Harry is the managing partner of Atlanta’s Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & DeLoach law firm. He represents defendant...

Fani Willis Disqualification Hearing LIVE Day 4 Closing Arguments And ruling if Wade’s Cell phone records can be admitted

The misconduct hearings on efforts to oust Fulton County DA Fani Willis from the Trump RICO case have come to a close. Both sides delivered final arguments Friday, each arguing where the bar should be set for the judge's looming disqualification decision. ... Trump defense attorney Steve Sadow said an "appearance of impropriety" is "enough" to disqualify her under Georgia law. ... Sadow raised rhetorical questions about who has the strongest motive to lie: "Who has the best motive of anyone to lie? They do. Who has the most at stake to lie? They do. Who wants to stay on...

For four months, Rathergate gestated in the belly of the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). Finally, the mountain labored and brought forth a pipsqueak.Corey Pein, a stalwart of that noble guardian of media matters has published a long, (3400 words) tedious, and foolish analysis whose primary point is to absolve CBS and Dan Rather of the blame for publicizing the famous Burkett forgeries last September on 60 Minutes II. Pein signals his disposition in the title of his piece—Blog-Gate. The offence, you see, was the blog world's exposure of the forgeries with astonishing swiftness and transparency. Then, sheeplike, to their shame,...