Civil rights attorney and Atlanta radio host Robert Patillo is planning to challenge Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who has been overseeing the high-profile election interference case against former President Trump and the case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, in the upcoming election.
Patillo, a civil rights attorney, is the former executive director of the social justice group Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which was founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and has previously billed himself as “a conservative Democrat,” according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Speaking to Fox News Digital, Patillo plans to qualify as a candidate for the position on Thursday. The election is set for May with a possible runoff in June.
McAfee was appointed to the bench by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp last year to fill a vacancy and is up for election after the term ends on Dec. 31, 2024.
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“I’ve always told myself if I had an opportunity to fix it from the inside, I would do so,” Patillo told Fox News Digital. “Our campaign is based on the idea of competency, on compassion and on creating change within the court system.”
“And you have to have an outside voice, someone who’s outside that prosecutor-to-bench pipeline in order to have the ability to make those changes,” Patillo said in a reference to McAfee, a former prosecutor.
Patillo pointed to Trump’s trial and the recent trial of Atlanta rapper…
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