The Georgia Court docket of Appeals will hear an attraction of a ruling that allowed Fani T. Willis, the district legal professional in Fulton County, to proceed main the prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump on expenses associated to election interference, the court docket introduced on Wednesday.
The choice to listen to the attraction, handed down by a three-judge panel, is prone to additional delay the Georgia felony case towards Mr. Trump and 14 of his allies, making it much less possible that the case will go to trial earlier than the November election.
The terse three-sentence announcement reopens the likelihood that Ms. Willis could possibly be disqualified from the largest case of her profession, and some of the vital state felony instances within the nation’s historical past.
At concern is a romantic relationship she had with Nathan Wade, a lawyer she employed to deal with the prosecution of Mr. Trump. Protection legal professionals argued that the connection amounted to an untenable battle of curiosity, and that Ms. Willis and her total workplace needs to be faraway from the case.
However on March 15, Decide Scott McAfee of Fulton County Superior Court docket dominated that Ms. Willis might hold the case if Mr. Wade stepped away from it. Mr. Wade resigned just a few hours after decide issued his ruling.
Steven H. Sadow, the lead counsel for Mr. Trump in Georgia, mentioned in a press release Wednesday that his shopper “seems to be ahead to presenting interlocutory arguments to the Georgia Court docket of Appeals as to why the case needs to be dismissed and Fulton County D.A. Willis needs to be disqualified for her misconduct on this unjustified, unwarranted political persecution.”
A spokesman for Ms. Willis’s workplace declined to touch upon the appeals court docket’s motion.
