Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney who now works as a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC, called on Fani Willis to recuse herself because “convicting Trump in this case is everything.”
White was speaking in reference to far-left federal prosecutor and fellow legal analyst Andrew Weissman, who called on Fani Willis to step aside after Judge Scott McAffee’s decision in the disqualification case. While McAffee did not disqualify Willis outright, he conceded that she acted improperly and ruled that Nathan Wade must resign from the case if it is to proceed, which he did Friday afternoon.
“I think this is something that we’re, you know, this is going to linger. We’re going to hear more of this because this is what defense lawyers are charged with doing,” Weissmann said. “And so even if there is a choice that Bonnie Willis makes to have Wade step down and she remains, I think she is still going to be a lightning rod and a liability as this case goes forward,” he continued, adding that somebody else in her office could oversee the case if Willis steps aside.
Left-leaning legal analysts and rabid anti-Trump partisans later debated the merits of Weissmann’s argument