A Georgia appeals court has ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office must be disqualified from the criminal racketeering case she brought against Donald Trump and his allies over their efforts to alter the results of the 2020 election. In a 2-1 decision Thursday, the court found that Willis had created the appearance of a conflict of interest stemming from her romantic relationship with an outside prosecutor whom she hired to help run the case. "This is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings," Judge Trenton Brown wrote, addressing the legal implications of Willis' relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade. Read the latest
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