Georgia will allow Trump to challenge order keeping Fani Willis on election interference case

The Georgia state court of appeals on Wednesday said it will consider an appeal from Donald Trump of an order allowing Fani Willis, the district attorney, to continue prosecuting his election interference case in Fulton County.

In a one page order, the appeals court said it would allow Trump to challenge the decision not to disqualify Willis over her relationship with her deputy. Trump has ten days to file a notice of appeal, the court said.

Last month, prosecutors urged the appeals court not to hear the appeal. “The present application merely reflects the applicants’ dissatisfaction with the trial court’s proper application of well-established law to the facts,” prosecutors wrote in a 19-page filing.

Trump and more than dozen of his allies were charged last year with racketeering over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump and his co-defendants tried to dismiss the case by alleging that Willis’s relationship meant she should be recused from the case.

The order is likely to further delay the trial in Fulton county and comes one day after Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely delayed Trump’s trial in Florida for charges that he retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club.

More details soon…