Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can no longer oversee the prosecution of President Donald Trump in the 2020 election interference case, according to a decision issued Tuesday by the state’s highest court.
The decision casts doubt on the future of the last remaining criminal prosecution of Trump. A nonpartisan state agency will now try to find another prosecutor to determine how to proceed with the sweeping racketeering case against Trump and his allies.
The Georgia Supreme Court declined to hear the Fulton DA’s appeal of a lower court’s decision in December that said Willis must be disqualified from the case because of her romantic relationship with then-special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The ruling, barring Willis from prosecuting the case, is a crushing blow to the nationally