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(10,463 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:33 AM Sep 16

Fani Willis Loses Bid to Continue Prosecuting Georgia Trump Case

Source: New York Times

The 4-3 ruling means that the criminal case against President Trump, related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, will not move forward anytime soon, if ever.

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The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt another blow to the moribund election interference case against President Trump, declining to intervene after an appeals court ruling last year disqualified Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, from prosecuting the case.

The 4-3 ruling means that the criminal case — once considered one of the most serious legal threats to Mr. Trump after he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss — will not move forward anytime soon, if ever. The Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, a state entity, will now decide whether to reassign the case, and to whom.

The head of the council, Pete Skandalakis, is a Republican. A new prosecutor could decide to press on with the case — now against a sitting president — drop it or bring a modified version. If charges remain against Mr. Trump, he would most likely not face trial until after his term ends in 2029. But if a new prosecutor wanted to proceed with the case against some or all of the 14 other defendants, they could be tried sooner.

Mr. Skandalakis ended up personally handling a piece of the investigation after Ms. Willis was disqualified from developing a case against Georgia’s lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, who acted as a fake elector for Mr. Trump in 2020. Ms. Willis was disqualified from weighing charges against Mr. Jones after headlining a fund-raiser for one of his political rivals. Mr. Skandalakis ultimately declined to bring any charges against Mr. Jones.

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Fiendish Thingy

(21,272 posts)
1. So Willis lost control of the prosecution due to an unforced error on her part
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:50 AM
Sep 16
Ms. Willis was disqualified from weighing charges against Mr. Jones after headlining a fund-raiser for one of his political rivals.


And this led to her being disqualified from leading the Trump prosecution.

This should end her career.

Fiendish Thingy

(21,272 posts)
7. Both unforced errors
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 01:36 PM
Sep 16

It wasn’t her relationship with Wade, but the fact that she hired him, despite minimal prosecution experience, to work as her subordinate in the Trump case.

It didn’t have to be this way.

Her career as DA should be over.

MichMan

(16,187 posts)
8. On top of this, Willis and Wade could still be facing perjury charges, and/or possible disbarment
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 01:48 PM
Sep 16

Silent Type

(11,727 posts)
3. RICO charges seldom work. First stupid move. Second was letting personal relations get in way of one's job and turning
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 12:21 PM
Sep 16

the trial into a chitshow. That was the easiest case against trump to win.

Botany

(75,728 posts)
4. They had Trump on tape committing a felony end of story. 'I just want 11,780 votes'
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 12:37 PM
Sep 16

And he gets to walk away just from that crime. Just like he got to walk away from
his attempted coup on 1/6/21, or his 34 felony convictions in NY State, or his theft
of America’s top secrets, or his …

LiberalLovinLug

(14,526 posts)
10. Teflon Trump
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 02:09 PM
Sep 16

Somehow he does it again.

I'm beginning to think he IS the Antichrist. He has to have help from, if not above, from below

bluestarone

(20,641 posts)
12. yea, hard to believe how slippery this BASTARD is.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 06:40 PM
Sep 16

He's got a lot of DEVIL DISCIPLE'S helping though.

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