Fani Willis Pleads To Remain on Trump Case

Okay, so is everyone keeping track of all the trials, indictments, appeals and counter-appeals, and appealing to appeal counter-appeals?

It seems every other day someone is appealing someone’s appeal.

We’re all getting quite tired of this, to be honest.

Justice is what needs in this country, and swiftly!

Until then, the tennis match continues:

“I’m taking you to court!”

“Fine. I’ll appeal the outcome!”

“Go ahead, I’ll appeal your appeal!”

“Oh yeah, appeal this!”

Anyone recall Groucho Marx’s skit from Monkey Business where he’s standing between an arguing couple? “Your turn,” he’d say to the man, before turning to the woman. “Your turn.”

Which is quite appropriate because it feels like we’re living in Marx Bros. comedy movie with all the insanity we witness daily.

So, who’s turn is it now?

Why it’s your turn, Fani Willis, the DA from Fulton County.

On Monday, she’s urging the appeals court to keep her on the racketeering case in Georgia against President Trump.

🚨BREAKING🚨Fani Willis Is Begging an Appeals Court Not to Kick Her off the Trump Case

Should she be removed from it? pic.twitter.com/VEigbXFFnu

— FOX NIIGHT (@FOXNIIGHTGALAXY) April 8, 2024

Washington Examiner reports:

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday called for an appeals court to refuse to consider former President Donald Trump‘s appeal of his trial judge’s decision not to disqualify her from the case, according to filing Monday afternoon.

Willis, who is prosecuting Trump and 13 remaining co-defendants in a sweeping Georgia racketeering case alleging they conspired to overturn the 2020 election, argued in a court filing that there is no further review needed after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee did not remove her from the case.

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The district attorney argued the trial court already held an evidentiary hearing which “spanned several days” and ultimately failed to establish “any actual conflict of interest and declined to dismiss the indictment.”

“The trial court also permitted the prosecution to proceed under the direction of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office upon the withdrawal of Special Assistant District Attorney Nathan Wade,” attorneys from Willis’s office wrote, referring to McAfee’s ultimatum that either Willis or Wade had to step aside after it became apparent that the pair engaged in a romantic relationship.

Last month, McAfee granted Trump’s legal team permission to bring the case to the Georgia Court of Appeals. The former president’s lawyers argued to the appeals court that the evidence brought up during the previous trial court hearing revealed Willis and Wade’s relationship did create an “appearance of impropriety in this case that cast a pall over these entire proceedings” and that the decision to allow Willis to continue “is plain legal error requiring reversal.”

After Trump filed his appeal of McAfee’s decision on March 29, it commenced a 45-day window for the appeals court to decide whether to grant the appeal. Defendants must prove to the court that the order they’re appealing “appears to be dispositive of the case” was made erroneously and could result in “substantial error at trial or affect the rights of the appealing party.”

If the appeals court were to take up the appeal of the decision not to remove Willis, it could help Trump achieve his goal of attempting to delay trials in his four criminal cases before the 2024 election as he seeks another four years in the Oval Office.

Willis’s filing on Monday coincided with a request by Trump and his remaining 13 co-defendants to appeal a ruling by McAfee not to dismiss the case on First Amendment grounds, another potential avenue for Trump to delay his trial if the effort to remove the lead prosecutor ultimately fails.

“President Trump and the other unjustly accused defendants have jointly filed a motion requesting the Court to grant a certificate of immediate review of its Order denying their pretrial First Amendment challenges,” Steve Sadow, one of Trump’s Georgia attorneys, wrote in a statement.

McAfee wrote last week that the defense had not shown any “authority that the speech and conduct alleged is protected political speech.”

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Here’s the filing:

NEW: The Fulton County district attorney's office asks the Georgia Court of Appeals to refuse to consider Trump's appeal of Judge McAfee's decision not to disqualify Fani Willis.

Read the filing: https://t.co/jycHNCshCN

— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) April 8, 2024

And for those of you that have been following along in the Fani Willis saga, here’s some highlights:

Can we recap:

Fani Willis has:

– lied under oath
– admitted on the stand to campaign finance law violations
– admitted to paying her married lover and co-counsel in cash saying “if he need a G, I will give him a G”
– was caught having an affair with said co-counsel after…

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 9, 2024

Does her calling from God involve Bible study with Nathan Wade until 4am?

Source: Expert's affidavit
(hired by Trump's lawyers, but under oath – and hard to imagine how he could make up the raw data subpoenaed from AT&T) pic.twitter.com/XjCEyfyxeA

— Brendan (@BrendanMcInnis) February 27, 2024

NATIONAL POLL: Should Fani Willis Be Disbarred?