From: NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.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: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:15:12 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:49:07 -0800, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>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 courts 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
>courts 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 courts denial of a motion to disqualify. None."'
Who cares what the dissenter said?