The Georgia criminal election interference case against President Donald Trump and a number of his allies entered a new phase Friday, as the executive director of the state’s prosecutor council appointed himself to take over the case, replacing Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney who was disqualified from pursuing it.

What the change means for the future of the case was unclear. The new prosecutor, Pete Skandalakis, is a veteran Georgia lawyer who began his career as a Democrat and later switched to the Republican Party. As executive director of the nonpartisan Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, Skandalakis had been tasked by law with finding a new prosecutor to take on the complex Trump case after Willis was removed by the Georgia appellate court.

In a filing in Ful

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