Trump and co-defendants appeal ruling keeping Fani Willis on Georgia election case
Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case have appealed a judge’s decision to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the case.
In a filing submitted to the Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday afternoon, attorneys for the former president and the co-defendants claimed that allowing Ms Willis to remain on their case would result in errors in each trial and cause public mistrust in the judicial system.
Earlier this month, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee decided that Ms Willis and her office could continue pursuing the case against Mr Trump and his co-defendants so long as her former partner and the prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade, resigned.
Mr Wade recently shortly after the ruling, allowing the case to go forward.
But lawyers for the Georgia co-defendants say that was the wrong decision.
“Nothing in the law—anywhere—says that the remedy for an appearance of impropriety is the disqualification of one apparently conflicted lawyer but not another,” the defence attorneys argued.
Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Jeffery Clark, Robert Cheeley, Michael Roman, David Shafer, Harrison Floyd and Cathy Latham joined Mr Trump’s appeal.
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