The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s effort to prosecute President Donald Trump in an election interference case.
Former DOJ official Jeff Clark said the ruling means Willis is “permanently disqualified from prosecuting the indictment that she brought against President Trump, me, and many others.”
“The Georgia Supreme Court denied cert to Fani Willis, who was attempting to get that Court to take her case, so that she could try to get un-disqualified after the Georgia Court of Appeals threw her off the case,” he wrote on X, adding, “Praise the Lord for progress in this case. It never should have been brought in the first place.”
President Trump said of the decision, “The court just ruled she was a disaster, she was a disaster with the boyfriend, the boyfriend that she paid a million dollars for his expertise but he never did it before.”
“Now she should be prosecuted. What she did to people, forget about me, what Fani Willis did to innocent people–patriots, who love our country–what she did to them, by indicting them, destroying them, she should be put in jail,” the president told reporters. “She’s a criminal. Fani Willis is a criminal.”
In 2024, the Georgia Appeals Court ruled that Willis was disqualified from prosecuting Trump.
“After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office,” the court filing read. “The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring.”
