A ruling from Georgia’s Court of Appeals removes Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting a sprawling election interference case against Donald Trump and more than a dozen of his allies, upending the ongoing criminal case against the president-elect weeks before he returns to the White House.
A three-judge panel determined Thursday that the district attorney’s former romantic relationship with a special prosecutor who was hired to take on the case amounted to a “significant” conflict of interest that warranted her dismissal from the prosecution team.