The long-stalled Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump is being taken over by a new prosecutor, months after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from prosecuting it. But what that change will mean for the case—and whether it will actually move forward—is as yet unclear.

Peter Skandalakis, the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, was tasked with finding a new prosecutor for the case after Willis’s disqualification in December 2024 by a state appeals court, which found that her relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed to the case created the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Now, nearly a year after Willis was disqualified, Skandalakis has assigned the case to himself.

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