From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Another witch hunt against Trump comes to a crashing end
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:49:07 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-12-20 10:42, NoBody wrote:
> A Georgia appellate court Thursday disqualified Fulton County District
> Attorney Fani Willis and removed her from prosecuting Donald Trump and
> co-defendants in a case she brought over his efforts to overturn the
> 2020 election.
>
> The decision is likely to cripple the case and bring a halt to the
> efforts to try Trump and his allies for their efforts to overturn his
> loss. Federal prosecutors have already dropped Trump's federal
> criminal case related to the 2020 election in the wake of his winning
> the presidency.
>
> "After carefully considering the trial courtâs findings in its order,
> we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her
> office," the court said, referring to an earlier ruling that allowed
> Willis to remain on the case. Willis had been under scrutiny over her
> relationship with a special prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade. Trump
> and other co-defendants had requested to have Willis removed from the
> case.
>
> In a statement, Trump attorney Steve Sadow praised the Court of
> Appeals' "well-reasoned and just decision" and said that it "puts an
> end to a politically motivated persecution of the next President of
> the United States."
>
> https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/appeals-court-disqualifies-fani-willis-trump-georgia-case-rcna184844
'One of the three judges, Benjamin Land, dissented.
"For at least the last 43 years, our appellate courts have held that an
appearance of impropriety, without an actual conflict of interest or
actual impropriety, provides no basis for the reversal of a trial
courtâs denial of a motion to disqualify," Land wrote.
He added, "Where, as here, a prosecutor has no actual conflict of
interest and the trial court, based on the evidence presented to it,
rejects the allegations of actual impropriety, we have no authority to
reverse the trial courtâs denial of a motion to disqualify. None."'