{"id":14777,"date":"2024-03-19T17:31:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/trump-attorney-challenge-decision-allowing-fani-willis-to-remain-on-case\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T17:31:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:01:17","slug":"trump-attorney-challenge-decision-allowing-fani-willis-to-remain-on-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/trump-attorney-challenge-decision-allowing-fani-willis-to-remain-on-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Attorney Challenge Decision Allowing Fani Willis to Remain on Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s attorney Steve Sadow and numerous codefendants in the Georgia election case filed a motion challenging the court\u2019s decision allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendants believe that the relevant case law requires dismissal of the case, or at the very least, the disqualification of the District Attorney and her entire office under the facts that exist here, and the resignation of Mr. Wade is insufficient to cure the appearance of impropriety the Court has determined exists,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/24485326-trump_motioncertificateimmediatereview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">motion<\/a> states.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Scott McAfee ordered last week that special counsel Nathan Wade step down from the case as an attempt to cure the \u201cappearance of impropriety,\u201d Sadow wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Wade\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/nathan-wade-resigns-trump-georgia-case-following-judges-ruling\/MZV2BLXKW5GCBM6WLMMKILS67U\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a letter announcing his resignation, \u201cAlthough the court found that \u2018the defendants failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest,\u2019 I am offering my resignation in the interest of democracy, in dedication to the American public, and move this case forward as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven these facts and the current state of case law, the Court of Appeals should speak definitively to this outcome-determinative issue now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadow told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-co-defendants-request-appeal-georgia-judges-ruling-keeping-fani-willis-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a> in a statement, \u201cThe motion further notes that the Court found Georgia case law lacks controlling precedent for the standard for disqualification of a prosecuting attorney for forensic misconduct. For these reasons among others, the Court\u2019s Order is ripe for pretrial appellate review.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: President Trump and several co-defendants are requesting to appeal Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee&#8217;s ruling against dismissing the case and disqualifying DA Fani Willis. The co-defendants include: <\/p>\n<p>Rudy Giuliani<br \/>Mark Meadows<br \/>Robert Cheeley<br \/>Michael Roman\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1769841063676801515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>                    <!--begin code --><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--end code --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/trump-attorney-challenge-decision-allowing-fani-willis-to-remain-on-case\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s attorney Steve Sadow and numerous codefendants in the Georgia election case filed a motion challenging the court\u2019s decision allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case. \u201cDefendants believe that the relevant case law requires dismissal of the case, or at the very least, the disqualification of the District Attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}