Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will allow an appeal of his decision not to disqualify Fani Willis to move forward. The decision clears the way for President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants to ask the Georgia Court of Appeals to review Judge McAfee’s decision regarding Willis. The Superior Court judge issued a certificate of immediate review on Wednesday.
“The Court finds that the order on the Defendants’ motions to Dismiss and Disqualify the Fulton County District Attorney issued March 15, 2024, ‘is of such importance to the case that immediate review should be had.’ Accordingly the requested motion is granted,” Judge McAfee stated in his decision approving the appeal.
On March 15, 2024, McAfee rejected the defendants’ calls for Willis’s disqualification and dismissal from her RICO prosecution of the former President and around a dozen others for allegedly interfering in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Instead, the judge determined that Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor and illicit romantic partner of Willis, would have to remove himself from the case.
Former President Trump and his co-defendants have accused Willis of engaging in a clandestine relationship with Wade before his appointment as a special prosecutor on the RICO case. They allege the relationship gives the “appearance of impropriety” and taints the prosecution.
“The motion notes that the court found that Willis’ actions created an appearance of impropriety and an ‘odor of mendacity’ that lingers in this case, but it nonetheless refused to dismiss the case or disqualify her,” said former President Trump’s attorney Steve Sadow after filing the appeal request yesterday.
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