The Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday vacated scheduled oral arguments in President-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case into the interference of the 2020 elections against Trump and 14 others.
The court in a brief order also said that the Dec. 5 argument is vacated ‘until further order of this court.’
Willis, a seasoned prosecutor charged Trump and some of his former campaign and administration allies others members in August 2023 of plotting to overturn Georgia election that he lost to President Joe Biden. Among the accused, four have taken their plea of guilty.
The larger organized crime and obstruction of justice probe has been inactive since June – waiting for the results of the president-elect’s bid to depose the Atlanta-area district attorney who is overseeing the investigation.
Trump accuses Willis of conflicts of interest due to the fact that she had an affair with the head of the prosecution she appointed for the vast racketeering case, Nathan Wade.
Trump and several other defendants have sought a reversal of the decision of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee made in March that Willis can serve on the case in the event Wade resigned, which he did. The judge had said he would allow some trial preparations to take place when the case goes up for an appeal.
Trump has proposed to annul all the various legal suits against him and the Justice Department’s Special Counsel Jack Smith is limiting the two suits Trump brought against him.
While it is possible for Trump as president to have far less ability in stopping this Georgia case than the federal indictments against him, legal analysts have noted that the American Constitution and rules would not even allow a state to prosecute a sitting president, let alone stop him or her from performing his or her duties.
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