‘Her troubles are far from over’, Clark Cunningham, a law professor and ethics specialist at Georgia State University, said in an email
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis with Nathan Wade at a news conference in Atlanta. Photograph: Kenny Holston/The New York TimesAfter revelations of Fani Willis’s romance with a subordinate sent the Georgia criminal case against former US president Donald Trump down a two-month detour worthy of a soap opera, a judge’s ruling on Friday resolved a big cliffhanger. Willis could continue prosecuting the case, so long as her ex-boyfriend withdrew from it.
Kramer’s campaign, while unlikely to succeed in heavily Democratic Fulton County, could amplify criticism of Willis and the case, which charges Trump and some of his allies with conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. As the pressure has mounted, Willis has responded with fierce defiance. Soon after news of the relationship broke, she gave a speech at a black church in Atlanta, calling herself “flawed, hardheaded and imperfect” but also suggesting that her critics were motivated by racism.
At the same time, there is no evidence that Wade, a lawyer and former municipal court judge from the Atlanta suburbs, ever handled a large political corruption case before Willis hired him. Indeed, his scant experience was a key argument in the original motion to disqualify Willis. The commission, made up of Republican appointees, was created last year but was stymied by legal problems that the legislature addressed in a recent measure. It is likely to face a court challenge before it can begin its work.
Steven Sadow, the main lawyer for Trump in Georgia, had described the speech as “provocative and inflammatory extrajudicial racial comments” meant to “publicly denounce and rebuke the defendants”. He argued that they were troubling enough to disqualify Willis and her office and dismiss the indictment.
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