ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia’s Supreme Court refuses to consider Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to consider a lawsuit to remove her Georgia Election Interference Lawsuits against President Donald Trump and others.
Quoting the “impossible appearance” created by the romantic relationships Willis had Special Prosecutor Nathan WadeHe hired her to lead the case, and the Georgia Court of Appeals in December ruled that Willis and her office could not continue to prosecute the case.
Trump praised the court’s ruling as a “great decision” and called Willis’ prosecution “should have started from the start” for his attempt to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.
“For Fani Willis, the innocent people, the patriots who love our country, and what she did to them by prosecuting and destroying them, she should be put in prison,” Trump told reporters.
“I hope this will eventually close this chapter,” said Ashley Merchant, who exposed his romantic relationship with Wade as the defense attorney for Trump’s co-defendant Michael Roman.
President Donald Trump will speak on Monday, September 15th, 2025 at the White House Oval Office in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Willis said he opposed the court’s decision but would direct the office to make case files and evidence available. Prosecuting Georgia State Council of Lawyers So you can appoint a new prosecutor to replace her.
“I hope that the person assigned to handle the case has the courage to make the evidence and demand for law,” Willis said in an emailed statement.
Willis in January asked the Georgia Supreme Court to review the ruling, and on Tuesday the High Court declined in a 4-3 decision to file a lawsuit. One judge was not involved and one judge was disqualified.
In other words, it is up to the prosecutor’s council to find another prosecutor to file a lawsuit. Council executive director Pete Skandarakis will begin searching for a new prosecutor to replace Willis on Tuesday, but he didn’t know how long it would take.
Scandalakis said that once a new prosecutor is appointed, it would be “what to do in the case.”
The person was able to continue the track that Willis took and decided to pursue only a few charges or dismiss the case entirely. Given its complex nature and the resources required, it can be difficult to find a prosecutor willing to receive a case.
Even if the new prosecutor wants to continue his charted path by Willis, it seems unlikely that Trump will be charged now, as the president he sits on. However, there are 14 defendants still facing charges in the case.
The Atlanta ju judge indicted Trump and 18 people in August 2023. State Runaway Law To accuse Georgia of participating in a wider plan to try and unlawfully overturn Trump’s narrow 2020 presidential election losses to Joe Biden of Georgia. The alleged scheme included Trump Call Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger I urge him to help him find enough votes to beat Biden. Four pleaded guilty.
The Georgia case was one of four criminal cases filed against Trump in 2023. Jack Smith, a special advisor to the Justice Department, waived two federal charges after Trump won the November election. In him Hash Money Case In New York, Trump was Convicted of 34 counts But I received a No punishment sentence.
Willis had asked the Georgia High Court to consider whether it was wrong for the lower court of appeals to disqualify her. She also asked the state Supreme Court to weigh whether the appeal court in this case was erroneous “in its own replacement of the court’s discretion.”
“No Georgia court has disqualified district attorneys because of the mere appearance of fraud without the existence of actual conflicts of interest,” Willis’ filings say. “And the Georgia court has never overturned a court order that refused to disqualify a prosecutor based solely on the appearance of fraud.”
Trump’s lawyers had argued that the lower court of appeals did it right and that Willis’ “is mandatory to disqualify him because it is the only remedy that can clean up the contamination of fraud.”
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Brambach reported from New York. Contributors were Associated Press journalists Russ Bynum of Savannah, Georgia, and Darlene Superuille of Washington, DC.
