BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨
The Georgia Court of Appeals has disqualified Fulton DA #FaniWillis from the RICO case against @realDonaldTrump
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"we reverse the trial court’s denial of the appellants’ motion to disqualify DA Willis and her office. As we conclude that the elected district attorney is wholly disqualified from this case, “the assistant district attorneys — whose only power to prosecute a case is derived from the constitutional authority of the district attorney who appointed them — have no authority to proceed"
It's a 31 page order... digesting it now...
The indictment is now an "orphan" - an indictment without a prosecutor
The now-infamous "church speech" factored heavily into the "forensic misconduct" piece of all this
Forensic misconduct involves extrajudicial statements by prosecutors against defendants
Court of Appeals notes, correctly, that the "forward looking remedy" of removing only Nathan Wade failed to cure the"
ODOR OF MENDACITY
They remind Willis that the DA has to make decisions "in the public interest"
Here's the coup de grace:
"disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings"
It's not just Willis, but the entire DA's office that is booted
The indictment itself is not dismissed by this order...
But since the odds that any other prosecutor in Georgia will be appointed to it, the Fulton Trump RICO case is dead
Willis can try to appeal to the GA Supreme Court, but I do not see them taking the case
Join me live on @Inside_The_Law 3pm ET for a "Breaking News Special Edition"
I will break all this down and explain what it means for the indictment moving forward!
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