Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump asked the Georgia Supreme Court to uphold the Fulton County DA’s disqualification from a case against Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team has asked the Georgia Supreme Court to deny Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s bid to overturn her disqualification from an election interference case against Trump and a number of co-defendants.
In a petition filed on Jan. 17, Trump’s lawyers urged the Georgia Supreme Court to deny Willis’s request for a review of an appellate court’s decision to disqualify her from the case due to an “appearance of impropriety.” Willis had argued that the Georgia Court of Appeals incorrectly disqualified her from the case by overreaching its authority and creating a new standard for disqualifying a prosecutor.
Trump’s attorneys argued in the filing that the appeals court correctly ruled that the appearance of impropriety in Willis’s conduct—related to her romantic relationship with her former special counsel—moved the case “from the middle of the continuum to that portion where disqualification is mandated because it is the only remedy that could purge the taint of impropriety.”
The president-elect’s legal team further contended that Willis’s claim that the disqualification created a new standard that would unjustifiably make