A petition to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from former President Donald Trump's election interference case has received more than 43,000 signatures.
Willis found herself embroiled in a scandal pertaining to a romantic relationship she held with Nathan Wade, an outside attorney brought into her office to help conduct the Trump investigation.
"Our senior legal team - including our own former GA prosecutor - is filing a critical amicus brief urging the Georgia Court of Appeals to hear this vital case and disqualify DA Willis." Willis and her team indicted Trump, now the presumed Republican presidential nominee, and 18 co-defendants on charges of conspiring to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 election win in Georgia.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and repeatedly said that the case was politically motivated.
"Our senior legal team - including our own former GA prosecutor - is filing a critical amicus brief urging the Georgia Court of Appeals to hear this vital case and disqualify DA Willis." Fani Willis Told To Recuse Herself From Trump Case Or Face Jail 0 View on Watch View on Watch Newsweek reached out to Willis' office via email for comment.
Although Judge Scott McAfee allowed the district attorney to remain on the prosecution last month, he also granted Trump and his co-defendants' requests to appeal his ruling to the Georgia Court of Appeals.
The lower court judge had allowed Willis to stay on the case as long as special prosecutor Wade stepped down.
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