Fani Willis Survives, But Donald Trump Will be Celebrating

Donald Trump’s legal team has scored a victory, with either the District Attorney or the chief prosecutor being forced out of Trump’s Georgia election case.

The decision could disrupt the case by weeks or even months.

Willis has already said that the trial may continue past presidential inauguration day in January 2025. If the case was transferred to another prosecutor, it would almost certainly delay the case past inauguration.

If elected president, Trump could then apply to the Supreme Court to have the case delayed until he leaves office.

Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, told Newsweek that Trump’s ultimate goal is to delay the case until after the U.S presidential election.

“It does appear that, inch by inch, the criminal justice system is making any 2024 trial less and less likely. Trump’s lawyers just have to get to Labor Day and then nothing will happen until 2025, if then,” he told Newsweek on Thursday.

Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can continue to oversee the Georgia election fraud case against Donald Trump but only if her former boyfriend leaves the case,

In February, Willis gave evidence in a two-day hearing following accusations that Willis was in a relationship with Nathan Wade, the chief prosecutor in Trump’s case. The timeline of their relationship has emerged as a key point of contention.

Trump’s lawyers examined phone records alleging the pair were in a relationship before the Georgia election fraud case began and that Wade only appointed Wade to the case because she was in a relationship with him.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all 10 charges of illegally interfering in the presidential election result in Georgia in 2020. He has said the case is politically motivated because he is almost certain to take the Republican presidential nomination.

This article will be updated.