A Georgia judge has ordered an immediate hearing to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be dismissed from her current case due to possible self-inflicted perjury, siding with the attorneys representing former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.
According to a court document made public online, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has given Trump’s attorneys a “certificate of immediate review,” stating that their move to have Willis removed from office “is of such importance to the case that immediate review should be had.” Now, Willis and her group will have the chance to ask an appeals court to reverse McAfee’s ruling.
Judge McAfee went on to say that as long as Willis’ qualifications are being reviewed, he will keep addressing pretrial motions.
“Regardless of whether the petition is granted within 45 days of filing, the Court intends to continue addressing the numerous other unrelated pending pretrial motions,” he wrote.
The decision is yet another setback for Willis, who was told last week to either accept her romantic partner Nathan Wade’s resignation or recuse herself from the case. Defense lawyers immediately turned their attention to the couple’s relationship, speculating that Willis may have paid Wade $700,000 after she started having an affair with him during their divorce.
Taking a stance, Willis said that she first got to know Wade in 2021 when he was brought on board to assist with the Trump probe. The Republican has been accused of felonies pertaining to attempts to tamper with Georgia’s 2020 election results. Both Wade’s former divorce lawyer and a former friend refuted her, saying the affair happened before Wade was hired.
If this is the case, Willis most likely committed perjury by concealing Wade’s nepotistic hiring. This is a serious offense that carries more severe consequences, such as disbarment and removal from office, in addition to the risk of Willis overlooking the case. Legal observers believe her law license may be in jeopardy, and a Georgia panel has been established to investigate whether state prosecutors are upholding their oaths of office in the wake of the scandal involving her and Wade.
In addition to her severe self-inflicted injuries, other observers—most notably CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin—are calling Willis’ case against Trump as null and void due to the hurried schedule for hearings, witness depositions, and document discovery in the four ongoing criminal trials involving the president. It is widely anticipated that, should any or all of his cases continue past Election Day, Trump, should he win, may dismiss two federal cases against him and put off local cases in Georgia and New York indefinitely.
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