Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley argued a Georgia judge’s decision to leave Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the Trump election case, if she parts ways with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, will only lead to additional questions. The constitutional scholar addressed Judge Scott McAfee’s decision during “America’s Newsroom” Friday, explaining that the judge avoided having to remove Willis’ office from the case entirely.
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JONATHAN TURLEY: We’ve been talking about this possibility of a Solomon-esque type of ruling by the court to take Wade off and leave Willis. The reason that’s attractive is it avoids the cliff problem… If he took Willis off the case, he’d have to take the entire office out of the mix. He’d have to reassign this to another set of prosecutors. That would cause considerable delay. It could also cause the dismissal of the case. If those new prosecutors looked at this racketeering theory and said, like many of us, wow, this doesn’t really hold together very well. So this avoided the cliff, but it did not avoid the questions that will inevitably come up… It’s like… finding two people in a bank vault and taking one off to jail… The question is… the appearance problem that the judge identified with regard to Wade, it was directly related to his relationship with Willis. They both testified in the same way. They were the two parts of… this relationship, and yet only one of them was…
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