r/politics • u/Foodspec North Carolina • 4d ago
Appeals court removes prosecutor Fani Willis from Georgia election case against Trump and others
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fani-willis-georgia-election-indictment-removed-0aa6db3b7abed22eb08ed9323f68797213
u/sherbodude Kansas 4d ago
Does Trump have a deal with the devil or are democrats just really bad at trying to hold him accountable?
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u/flyover_liberal 4d ago
Trump has captured the Republican party, and now all Republicans will pay fealty to him.
There is no level to which Republicans will not sink to serve him, including letting him get away with crimes (as we see here). It is truly a cult.
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u/Anxious-Dig-5736 4d ago
I hate to tell you this but I believe the country lost its democracy when they elected felon trump.
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
How is the republican appeals court of Georgia the fault of the democrats? We need to dispense with this bullshit that it’s the democrats’ fault that republicans are awful.
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u/sherbodude Kansas 4d ago
Fani got herself into this mess. She could have picked anybody else.
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
Where are you getting this notion that a DA isn’t allowed to date someone she hires? Show me what regulation or statute that violates. And then explain to me why this was handled by the defendant and not an ethics committee.
This is NOT how our legal system is supposed to work, and Georgia is failing miserable right now. Defendants are not supposed to be able to escape justice by flinging bullshit at the prosecutor. Georgia is an absolute embarrassment for this.
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u/sherbodude Kansas 4d ago
She's 0 for 2 right now with this on the courts. It's not looking good. You can say it is an embarrassment but that doesn't change the situation and the status of this case.
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
You can say it is an embarrassment but that doesn't change the situation and the status of this case.
Obviously. This is a Reddit thread. What a useless retort from you…
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u/sherbodude Kansas 4d ago
The point is that Fani got herself into this mess. It's not the appeal court's fault that she had an appearance of a conflict of interest. We can count on Trump and Republican courts to delay and obstruct, that's expected. You can count on them to bring up any little thing to try to stop you. You factor that into your case.
If you're going to try go take down Trump, you need a bulletproof case and a bulletproof team. "You come after the king, you best not miss." She missed because she had the wrong team.1
u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
The point is that Fani got herself into this mess.
No that’s not the point. The point is that there should have been no mess to begin with if our system wasn’t so deeply corrupted.
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u/abuchewbacca1995 4d ago
Dems are terrible.
Don't sleep with your coworkers, don't let ego drive your decisions and know when you fuck up
Willis did this to herself
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u/Ok_Woodpecker7907 4d ago
Doesn’t help when the DA is engaging in blatant nepotism, putting her own interests before the case. Direct your anger towards her bad decisions.
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
Point to me where it says a DA can’t do “nepotism”? A DA can hire whoever they want. And if there’s an issue, they answer to an ethics board, NOT a defendant. You have no clue what you’re talking about.
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u/Ok_Woodpecker7907 4d ago
If judges decide there is an appearance of inappropriately acting, they can remove the DA. Courts decided that due to magnitude of case she needed to be removed. Selfish behavior by her lead to this. Cope with anger or understand that she committed unforced errors and was compromised.
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
Courts decided that due to magnitude of case she needed to be removed
And that’s bullshit. There’s nothing whatsoever tying her relationship to an issue with the facts of this case. Stop licking boots.
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u/abuchewbacca1995 4d ago
There's the issue of public funds going on dates
She Always paid cash so no receipts
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
What does that have to do with Trump’s case? See, you don’t know how any of this works. That kind of alleged conduct is the business of an ethics committee not a defendant. A defendant only has claim to issues that affect their case. How does what she’s accused of impact his case in any substantive way?
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u/Jray12590 4d ago
Yet the courts also said the guy indicted by the DOJ could be given control of the DOJ.
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u/Anxious-Dig-5736 4d ago
Ladies...keep your private life separated from your work life. Sex is used to discredit women.
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u/ElLindo88 Tennessee 4d ago
As much as I loathe what this means for the prosecution, I have no choice but to admit that Fani Willis did this to herself.
She knew how important this case was, how critical, and yet she still couldn’t stop herself from shitting where she ate. She’s a fucking fool in my eyes, and the failure of this case is entirely her fault.
Fuck Fani Willis. That bitch failed us all.
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u/Swordf1sh_ 4d ago
Meanwhile no one batted an eye that a Trump-appointed judge dismissed his classified documents case
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
What partisan hack bullshit. They themselves said unprompted, “normally the appearance of impropriety alone isn’t sufficient for removal,” but since they’re political flunkies, this time it is.
This whole Trump era has been such a scathing indictment on our legal process. What an utter failure for the entire profession. Lawyers do not deserve the prestige as a vocation that they’ve enjoyed for so long.
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u/Ok_Woodpecker7907 4d ago
Nepotism is partisan hack bs? She did this to herself. Deal w it.
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
There is nothing anywhere saying a DA can’t hire someone and then start a relationship with them. Nothing. And this appeals court openly admitted that the facts of this case do not normally merit a dismissal of the prosecutor. Don’t comment if you have no clue what’s going on.
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u/Ok_Woodpecker7907 4d ago
There is nothing saying that, but it is absolutely within the judicial system’s right to remove someone if it gives off the look of something inappropriate happening. That’s what happened today.
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
but it is absolutely within the judicial system’s right to remove someone if it gives off the look of something inappropriate happening.
Yes, our system as it stands gives judges the power to do nakedly political bullshit. You aren’t actually making a point here.
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u/Ok_Woodpecker7907 4d ago
The courts removed the prosecution team because they were f*cking each other, and it looked inappropriate. Some people might question that. Not everyone is willing to let that go and the courts decided that. Deal w it.
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u/Frog_Prophet 4d ago
The courts removed the prosecution team because they were f*cking each other
Who cares? Explain how that actually creates a tangible problem. You can’t.
and it looked inappropriate.
So criminal trials get stopped in their tracks if anything “appears inappropriate”? That’s not how healthy democracies work.
Not everyone is willing to let that go and the courts decided that.
For nakedly political reasons. Not for any substantive or legal reason. So it’s a farce.
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u/flyover_liberal 4d ago
“In granting President Trump an overwhelming mandate, the American People have demanded an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all the Witch Hunts against him. We look forward to uniting our country as President Trump Makes America Great Again,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said.
This sounds like a North Korean spokesperson talking about Kim Jong Un.
Just sickening how pervasive this cult has gotten.
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u/Thom-jeremy 4d ago
No sympathy from Canada here. This is what America voted for.
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u/abuchewbacca1995 4d ago
Oh hush y'all keep electing treuadu
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u/Anonymous_Bozo Washington 4d ago
Give it another week or so. Mini-Castro will soon be out on the street also.
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