Holly Bailey

Two years after Fani Willis was removed from the case, a state official named himself to consider whether Burt Jones should be charged in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled that alleged speech “in furtherance of criminal activity” is not protected by the First Amendment.

In the motion, Trump and eight co-defendants argued that Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis and her office should be disqualified from the prosecution over misconduct allegations.

Fulton County prosecutors accused Donald Trump’s lawyer of trying to recast the charges against the former president, who they claim was squarely at the center of a sweeping criminal conspiracy to reverse his 2020 election loss in Georgia.

Nine co-defendants cited a judge’s opinion that an “odor of mendacity” remained in the election interference case because of prosecutors’ romantic relationship.

The decision comes more than two months after Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) was accused of having an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” with the special prosecutor she appointed to oversee the election interference case.

An Atlanta-area judge dismissed six counts of 41-count criminal racketeering indictment, ruling those charges lacked specific detail, but declined to dismiss the case.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee must decide if a relationship between District Attorney Fani Willis and a special prosecutor created a conflict of interest or the appearance of one.

Terrence Bradley, a former law partner of special prosecutor Nathan Wade, repeatedly testified under oath that he did not know when the relationship between Wade and Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) started.

Terrence Bradley, a former law partner of special prosecutor Nathan Wade, repeatedly declined to say what he knew about the relationship between Wade and Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D).