Georgia Court Strikes Down Appeal in Fani Willis Disqualification Case – Shocking Twist

An appeal by President-elect Donald Trump and his codefendants over Fani Willis’ disqualification due to his criminal conviction in Georgia was canceled by the Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday. The oral arguments have been postponed from their original date of December 5, one month after the election. “The oral argument scheduled to take place on December 5, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. is hereby canceled until further order of this Court,” the court’s one-line command stated.

The court offered no justification nor an explanation. After a prosecutor on her team resigned, Trump and a few of his codefendants appealed a judge’s decision that let Willis to remain on the case. In a broad racketeering indictment last year, Trump and eighteen other defendants entered not guilty pleas to all charges related to their purported attempts to change Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. Following that, four defendants accepted plea agreements in return for consenting to testify against other defendants.

The former president has accused the district attorney of having political motivations for the probe. Once dominating his campaign agenda and rhetoric, Trump’s legal troubles have mostly eased or even stopped since he was elected president. Trump’s appeal of his case from January 6 in Washington, D.C., has been put on hold for the time being, and the judge in New York who presided over his criminal case that led to his conviction has postponed making a decision on whether to dismiss the conviction based on presidential immunity.

When ABC News questioned the Fulton County DA, who filed the accusations against Trump in 2023, about the case’s future, the DA previously refused to comment. Trump has referred to the lawsuit as politically motivated and entered a not guilty plea.