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ATLANTA (AP) — The lawyer who initiated the effort to remove Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump walked state lawmakers through her investigation into the Fulton County district attorney’s romantic relationship with a special prosecutor and why she believes it creates a conflict of interest. Ashleigh Merchant, who represents Trump … Read more
By Kate Brumback | Associated Press ATLANTA — Not removing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others over her romantic relationship with a top prosecutor would undermine public confidence in the legal system, a lawyer for one of Trump’s co-defendants told a judge Friday. After … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — Should District Attorney Fani Willis be removed from the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump because of her personal relationship with a special prosecutor? Lawyers were set to battle over the question during a hearing in Atlanta on Thursday. Willis, the DA for Georgia’s Fulton County, hired outside lawyer … Read more
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has received so many threats against her life over the past three years that she has had to move “something like four times,” according to her father, retired attorney John Floyd III. He said that he intentionally did not learn where his daughter had moved in order to help … Read more
By Jill Colvin and Adriana Gomez Licon | Associated Press NEW YORK — Donald Trump ‘s unprecedented tangle of overlapping trials was on full display Thursday with simultaneous court hearings in New York and Georgia. In Manhattan, a judge ruled that Trump’s hush-money case will begin on March 25, making it the first of his … Read more
By Kate Brumback | Associated Press ATLANTA — A Georgia judge who is deciding whether to toss Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis off of the state’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump has set a hearing for Thursday that is expected to focus on details of Willis’ personal relationship with a special … Read more
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House members passed a bill Monday to revive a commission with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors, a move Democrats warn is aimed at disrupting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The House voted 95-75 along party lines for House Bill 881, sending it to … Read more
Donald Trump has joined an existing legal effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against the former president and his 18 co-defendants, accusing her of having an improper romantic relationship and injecting “racial animus” into the probe. In a Thursday complaint, Trump’s legal team accused Willis of … Read more