A Double Win for Trump as a Date Is Set To Decide Fani Willis’s Disqualification — When He Could Be President-Elect

A delay in oral arguments pushes the session beyond November’s election — meanwhile, the special counsel appeals his own disqualification.

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District Attorney Fani Willis during a hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, at Atlanta. Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images

The Georgia Court of Appeals’s decision to hold oral arguments on the disqualification of District Attorney Fani Willis on December 5 suggests that a collision could be coming between the Peach State and a possible second Trump White House.

That the session is scheduled amounts to a victory for Trump and his co-defendants, who requested the session. It is another setback for Ms. Willis, who sought to convince the review tribunal that Trump had not mustered up enough evidence to earn such a hearing. All three judges set to hear the case — Trenton Brown, Todd Markle, and Benjamin Land —  are Republican appointees.

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