The resignation of Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade — the former lover of the district attorney of Fulton County, Fani Willis — secures her place on the case against President Trump and 18 others for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. 

Mr. Wade takes his leave after a ruling from Judge Scott McAfee that he or Ms. Willis could prosecute the case, but not both of them, due to a “significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team.” The judge found that Ms. Willis’s behavior with respect to Mr. Wade has been defined by a “tremendous lapse in judgment.”