Trump’s Supreme Court Triumph Is a Blow to Fani Willis, Already at Risk of Losing Case Over Secret Affair
The district attorney, already at risk of disqualification for her affair with her former boyfriend, now could see her charges dismissed en masse.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that former presidents are entitled to “presumptive immunity” for official acts could soon wreak havoc on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s racketeering prosecution of President Trump — at a juncture when she can ill afford another setback.
The 45th president’s resounding victory at the high court applies to state charges as well as federal ones, even as the pardon power is limited to federal crimes. Now, it is prosecutors who will bear the burden of piercing presidential immunity for official acts.
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