The Georgia prosecutor who brought a case against President-elect Donald Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants appealed a court ruling that disqualified her amid allegations of impropriety.
The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled late last year that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office couldn’t prosecute Trump and the others due to the “appearance of impropriety” that was created when she engaged in a relationship with her former special counsel, Nathan Wade, who she hired to help with the case.
Willis, an elected Democrat, asked the state Supreme Court to reverse that lower court’s decision late Wednesday, arguing it “overreached the Court of Appeals’ authority” and created a new standard for disqualifying a prosecutor.
“No Georgia court has ever disqualified a district attorney for the mere appearance of impropriety without the existence of an actual conflict of interest,” her filing said. “And no Georgia court has ever reversed a trial court’s order declining to disqualify a prosecutor based solely on an appearance of impropriety.”
It further asks the state’s highest court to determine whether the court of appeals was incorrect in removing her based “solely upon an appearance of impropriety and absent a finding of an