Fulton County, Georgia, Superior , Court , Judge , Scott McAfee ‘s , selection is one great slog.  ,
McAfee ruled on Friday in the Fani Willis– Nathan Wade , sexual- return situation: It takes two to dance, but only one is to corrupt to be on the dance floor.  ,
How does that job?
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had the opportunity to maintain her election-related intervention investigation against former president Donald Trump, but only if she removed Wade, her lead attorney, and ex-boyfriend/high-flying travel companion.
If Willis and Wade had a torrid love affair with Wade alive and Willis unconscious, McAfee ‘s ruling simply makes sense. Not yet Helen Keller would have been so blind of situations in which she was, literally, deeply involved.
According to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, “it’s like finding two folks in a lender tomb and taking one off to jail.” ” They were the two parts of this relationship, and only one of them was disqualified” . ,
Turley added:” Why does Willis leave that same sentence? The judgment gives the impression that the court went and shot the injured.
The decision , should have been both: Wade and Willis are clear. Therefore, deal. Or Wade and Willis are crooked. But, you’re fired!
Otherwise, McAfee ruled: Willis is clear, and Wade is crooked. But, she should stay or leave with Wade, as she wishes. Whatever.
Huh?
McAfee’s candy logic does involve his election in two months. Maybe by leaving Willis some bounce area, McAfee reckons he is tiptoe around the land mine that would have exploded had he disqualified , Willis and , blown this case and himself sky- higher.
This underscores the urgent need to remove all judicial elections and create local, state, and state judges like national jurists, especially, appointed by executives, confirmed by legislators, and unbeholden to voters. Justice cannot be blind when giving babies a kiss and a shake of hands.  ,
McAfee might have ruled 100 % on the law and evidence and 0 % on his own political prospects.  , And yet he is on , Fulton County ‘s , May , 21 , ballot, according to his election website.
Thus, speculation stirs that McAfee’s decision was  , a self- serving campaign stunt. Such thoughts, justified or not, corrode confidence in a justice system already , sinking into a quicksand of , public doubts.
Meanwhile, Trump’s attorneys responded to McAfee.
” While respecting the Court’s decision, we believe that the Court did not afford appropriate significance to the , prosecutorial misconduct , of Willis and Wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthfully about when their personal relationship began, as well as Willis ‘ extrajudicial]Martin Luther King ] ‘ church speech,’ where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism,”  , declared , Steve Sadow,  , Trump ‘s , lead counsel , in the alleged election- interference prosecution”. As we fight to put an end to this case, which should never have been brought in the first place, we will use every legal defense available.
These” legal options “most assuredly involve appeal motions. Wiser jurists might return a more rational result, perhaps based on McAfee’s finding that there was at least  , the appearance of corruption , in this case. In legal disputes, appearance alone is typically sufficient to remove parties who are too ill-prepared to remain in place. Now that Wade has resigned in disgrace, Willis should be dismissed for good.
No less a Trump hater than Andrew Weissmann, a former Justice Department Deep Stater, considers Willis too crippled to continue. As he commented via X:  ” ,For the good of the case, given that , ethics issues , will abound now as to Willis, she should voluntarily recuse herself from the case and allow another prosecutor to oversee the GA trump]sic ] case.”
Willis cannot stand in court and challenge the propriety of Trump and 18 other co- defendants without the entire country —and the jury—thinking:” Go look in the mirror!”
And now, this circus moves on to appellate court.  , Whatever other judges decide, these appeals will take time. And right now, time is Trump’s best friend.
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