The Judge’s Ruling on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis Is a Mess

Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday morning that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is not disqualified from prosecuting the cases against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, but either she and her entire office or special prosecutor Nathan Wade must step down from the case. The decision forced Wade’s resignation Friday afternoon.

It also puts Judge McAfee in the same territory as Judge Lance Ito—when it comes to losing control of a high-profile case.

Lance Ito, you may recall, was the well-respected Los Angeles state court judge who presided over what was known in the mid-1990s as the “Trial of the Century”—the murder case against O.J. Simpson for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Ito allowed the trial to be televised and, in the glare of the publicity, proceeded to melt into a meandering and indecisive jurist who allowed the trial to drag on for almost an entire year before resulting in an acquittal.

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