Donald Trump’s attorney Steve Sadow and numerous codefendants in the Georgia election case filed a motion challenging the court’s decision allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case.
“Defendants believe that the relevant case law requires dismissal of the case, or at the very least, the disqualification of the District Attorney and her entire office under the facts that exist here, and the resignation of Mr. Wade is insufficient to cure the appearance of impropriety the Court has determined exists,” the motion states.
Judge Scott McAfee ordered last week that special counsel Nathan Wade step down from the case as an attempt to cure the “appearance of impropriety,” Sadow wrote.
Wade wrote in a letter announcing his resignation, “Although the court found that ‘the defendants failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest,’ I am offering my resignation in the interest of democracy, in dedication to the American public, and move this case forward as quickly as possible.”
“Given these facts and the current state of case law, the Court of Appeals should speak definitively to this outcome-determinative issue now.”
Sadow told Fox News in a statement, “The motion further notes that the Court found Georgia case law lacks controlling precedent for the standard for disqualification of a prosecuting attorney for forensic misconduct. For these reasons among others, the Court’s Order is ripe for pretrial appellate review.”
