Ohio congressman Jim Jordan is accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — and her prosecution of Donald Trump — of being part of a conspiracy to affect the 2024 presidential election. Channel 2 Action News spoke exclusively with Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, who is investigating Willis’ prosecution of […]
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Ga. appeals court grants Trump’s request to consider Fani Willis’ disqualification from his criminal case
Georgia’s state Court of Appeals said Wednesday that it will consider an appeal from former President Donald Trump challenging the decision not to disqualify Fani Willis as the district attorney overseeing the 2020 election interference charges against him. The order said that Trump can file a notice of appeal within the next 10 days. A […]
Georgia Appeals Court Hands Trump Massive Win With Fani Willis Ruling
Donald Trump just got some good news on another legal front. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review the decision to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the RICO prosecution against Trump in his Georgia election interference case. That criminal trial charges Trump and more than a dozen of his associates with […]
Georgia will allow Trump to challenge order keeping Fani Willis on election interference case
The Georgia state court of appeals on Wednesday said it would 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 […]
Georgia appeals court to hear Trump’s bid to disqualify Fani Willis
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) – Georgia’s appeals court has agreed to hear former U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting him over his attempts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election, according to a court order on Wednesday. The ruling prolongs the legal battle over a former romance between Fani […]
Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. Trump and some other defendants in the case had tried to get Willis and her office removed […]
California man charged with threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis
A California man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta on charges of threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced Friday. Mark Schultz, 66, of Chula Vista, made his first court appearance in California on Friday. He was indicted on April 24 […]
California man charged with threatening to kill Fani Willis
A California man has been charged with sending death threats to Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney who is overseeing the Georgia prosecution against Donald Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state. The man, Marc Shultz, is alleged to have posted multiple menacing comments last […]
Fani Willis fights disqualification appeal in Trump’s Georgia case
Remember the Fani Willis disqualification saga? It’s not over yet. Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia are appealing Judge Scott McAfee’s order that let the Fulton County district attorney stay on the case. If they’re successful on appeal, then that would throw the entire case into question. But Willis is fighting the defense quest […]
Georgia prosecutors urge court to reject Trump attempt to disqualify Fani Willis
Fulton county prosecutors asked the Georgia state court of appeals on Monday to reject Donald Trump’s request to consider his claim that the district attorney should be disqualified over a relationship with her deputy, arguing that the matter was correctly settled by the lower court judge. “The present application merely reflects the applicants’ dissatisfaction with […]
Trump, co-defendants ask appeals court to consider booting DA Fani Willis from Georgia case
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case on Friday asked a state appeals court to allow them to challenge a recent ruling that didn’t disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case. “The Georgia Court of Appeals should grant the application and […]
Trump appeals ruling letting Fani Willis stay on election interference case
Donald Trump’s legal team on Friday sought to overturn a Fulton county, Georgia, judge’s decision allowing Fani Willis to continue as prosecutor of that state’s election interference case against the former president. “[T]he indictment should have been dismissed and, at a minimum, [District Attorney] Willis and her office should have been disqualified from prosecuting the […]