Althouse: "Fani Willis disqualified from Trump's Georgia election interference case."

December 19, 2024

"Fani Willis disqualified from Trump's Georgia election interference case."

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75 comments:

MadisonMan said...: Note to Democrats: When you're in a hole, stop digging.; 12/19/24, 9:26 AM
Enigma said...: To paraphrase Hillary: "When the facts come out people will realize there was a vast left-wing conspiracy."; 12/19/24, 9:27 AM
mikee said...: Odd how this sort of UNO reverse card keeps getting played by Trump, and so successfully. Almost like so much of it was just a witch hunt, lawfare based not on Trump doing illegal things, but just to damage him through bogus legal proceedings.; 12/19/24, 9:30 AM
n.n said...: Thus conception of the modern adage: hoisted by her Fani.; 12/19/24, 9:31 AM
R C Belaire said...: Oh, that's gotta hurt.; 12/19/24, 9:33 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Now she's got plenty of time to count all that shoe-box money her black panther father taught her to hide under the bed and take it to a bank where it belongs!; 12/19/24, 9:34 AM
n.n said...: The tragic irony of political sanctuary leading to legal sequestration. Hoisted by her Fani.; 12/19/24, 9:35 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Never forget that Gov kemp did ZERO to help Trump in this. And Kemp's boy - the Secretary of State - actively helped the prosecution. Both are R's by the way. If Trump get away unscathed, it wont be because of those two.; 12/19/24, 9:36 AM
n.n said...: ... in the refrigerator, away from cavorting Katrina, away from Walz "N Kamala et al.; 12/19/24, 9:39 AM
Moondawggie said...: To paraphrase Bluto in Animal House: 4 years of political persecution/lawfare down the drain!; 12/19/24, 9:39 AM
Dude1394 said...: Georgia sidestepped the financial goodies that were NOT coming to them because of this. Intentionally or unintentionally.

NYC, best take the hint.; 12/19/24, 9:40 AM
n.n said...: Prosecutorial indiscretion.; 12/19/24, 9:41 AM
Iman said...: Teh feckin’ she gets for the feckin’ she got.; 12/19/24, 9:41 AM
Dude1394 said...: Have to wonder how the bluesky inmates are taking this. :); 12/19/24, 9:42 AM
Peachy said...: The cumupance and Karma are just getting started.; 12/19/24, 9:44 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: The usual, Death threats with a side of pedophilia.; 12/19/24, 9:45 AM
Peachy said...: Judge Merchan is corrupt.; 12/19/24, 9:50 AM
n.n said...: Blue skies are, ironically, polluted skies in fact, and under Democratic endangerment proclamation.; 12/19/24, 9:50 AM
gilbar said...: so, i guess The Moral of The Story IS:
*IF* you are a totally corrupt gang prosecutor (owned and operated By the gangs)..
MAKE SURE that you and your boyfriends steal AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN..
WHILE you can, because eventually, you'll Probably get kicked out.

Serious Question for all Althouse readers.. How Many 10's of Thousands of dollars do YOU keep under your mattress? Do you report ANY of it?; 12/19/24, 9:53 AM
Aggie said...: There are (R)'s, and then there are (R)'s, as the CR being considered on the (R)-dominated House floor amply proves...; 12/19/24, 9:59 AM
Peachy said...: Fani is corrupt. Where is her indictment?; 12/19/24, 10:00 AM
Peachy said...: Bluesky filled with child porn and death threats. LOL.; 12/19/24, 10:00 AM
mindnumbrobot said...: Time to ink that book deal. Working title is I'm the Real Victim.; 12/19/24, 10:01 AM
n.n said...: Fani issues a selfie-indictment. LOL; 12/19/24, 10:03 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Juan Merchan gatta be pleased with his performance …so far. Rushed that case so fast the jury was probably not correctly instructed. I don’t know if rushing is a defense but it should be appealable.; 12/19/24, 10:04 AM
n.n said...: The question is #MeToo Willis or will she not. She will. She did. Hoisted by her Fani.; 12/19/24, 10:05 AM
rhhardin said...: It's a lawfare case so shouldn't depend on who's prosecuting it. The selection process may be random with respect to the prosecutor chosen, though, so the case may die. The corruption of the justice system remains, however.; 12/19/24, 10:23 AM
Jaq said...: Isn't she the person with enough super genius IQ to put together the case? Trump probably wasn't smart enough to realize that doing the same thing Al Gore did in 2000 was actually a sooper heinous crime.; 12/19/24, 10:23 AM
rhhardin said...: The average US black IQ is 86 but there are plenty of really smart blacks, just not at STEM astronomical levels. So you get black prosecutors who are really smart, and also are resentful, aka motivated, women. They may look particularly dumb but know how to work the system.; 12/19/24, 10:26 AM
Balfegor said...: Re: gilbar:

About $15,000 in JPY. I don't report any of it because it's below the reporting threshold for FATCA. Even if it were above, I don't think cash held for consumption purposes is covered by FATCA, but I've never had to ask.; 12/19/24, 10:33 AM
hombre said...: So far, dirtbag prosecution only thrives in New York and DC. We will see about Arizona and Wisconsin.; 12/19/24, 10:51 AM
Enigma said...: I'm not commenting on black IQ here, but it was no accident that the Democrats had black prosecutors attack Trump with so many of these cases (e.g., Fani, Leticia James, Alvin Bragg).

Trump "punching down" against the women of The Squad during his presidency played into Democratic fundraising and the red-meat faction of the Party. In their eyes his hostility proved he was a racist and sexist and so anything out of Trump's mouth against blacks would be a "win."

These cases were plainly coordinated, and put out as...DEI proof of competence? See the many struggles of press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre with basic content and the lionization of Ketanji Brown Jackson after rabid assults against Trump's SC nominees.; 12/19/24, 10:52 AM
Tom T. said...: Her entire office was disqualified. To go forward, some other county's DA would have to want to pick it up, I guess.; 12/19/24, 11:23 AM
Rocco said...: Note to Democrats: If you just dig that hole just a little bit deeper, you’ll be sure to get Trump/MAGA this time!; 12/19/24, 11:27 AM
Rocco said...: n.n said…
“Thus conception of the modern adage: hoisted by her Fani.”

Considering the British use of the term and the fact that she was caught putting her married lover on the payroll, yes that is correct.; 12/19/24, 11:30 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Trump has been incredibly blessed in the stupidity of his persecutors. In. Cred. Ibly!; 12/19/24, 11:42 AM
Mattman26 said...: I just read the opinion and the dissent. I have nothing but contempt for Willis or this prosecution, but I think on the narrow legal issue before the court, the majority got it pretty plainly wrong, and the dissent is correct. I know nothing about the makeup of the Georgia Supreme Court, but it wouldn't be shocking if this got taken upstairs and reversed.; 12/19/24, 11:44 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: And not even a confirmed judge. Just a temp / appointed stooge.; 12/19/24, 11:45 AM
AMDG said...: Kemp is also the most popular politician in the state and has been an excellent Governor. Trump understands this.

What, precisely do think Kemp could have done?; 12/19/24, 11:45 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Judge disqualified ALL ADAs in Fulton County as well because their power derives from the elected power of the DA and she's fatally disqualified for malfeasance. Can't be tried in Fulton. And Trump won every other county in the state. Stick a fork in it. It's done.; 12/19/24, 11:49 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: DC is done as well.; 12/19/24, 11:50 AM
effinayright said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/19/24, 12:08 PM
effinayright said...: The obvoius question is: WHY do you have that opinion?; 12/19/24, 12:09 PM
Mattman26 said...: Okay, that's fair. Procedural posture of case meant appellate court was required to accept (and did accept) that there was no actual conflict of interest, only appearance; and that Willis did not materially benefit by retaining/paying Wade; and that nothing that happened in the case led to unfairness to defendants. More importantly, accepting those premises, the remedy (disqualification, nothing at all, or the middle ground taken by the trial judge) is squarely within the discretion of the trial judge. Here the appellate court, without any well-defined reason, just overrode the trial court's decision, which runs counter to a whole bunch of cases, including from the Georgia Supreme Court.; 12/19/24, 12:16 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Fanny played fast and loose with the facts.; 12/19/24, 12:29 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Kamala just got a $20 million advance. Fani can't get that much, but if she could get even 1/4th, that's a lot of shoe boxes!; 12/19/24, 12:30 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Fanny with a y got an F and she don’t know why.; 12/19/24, 12:31 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: When you rush a case you get a rotten outcome.; 12/19/24, 12:33 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: "Serious Question for all Althouse readers.. How Many 10's of Thousands of dollars do YOU keep under your mattress?"

Zero. I keep the gold sovereigns in several locations...sleeping on them is a surefire recipe for future lower back problems.

" Do you report ANY of it?"

Lol. LMAO even.; 12/19/24, 12:34 PM
wsw said...: #Trumptroubles dissipate; 12/19/24, 12:37 PM
Mr. T. said...: Stand by for the obligatory 3-paragraph rant from one Robert "Kook" Cook full of legal fictions and vacuous jargon from his law license in Legalistical Lawyerisming that he made by drawing on a placemat at IHOP with crayons.; 12/19/24, 12:37 PM
Rabel said...: After shopping for a new mattress, I'd say that the mattress itself represents a highly valuable stash.; 12/19/24, 12:49 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Drawing on a placemat is part of defending one's thesis at the Institute of Half-assed Obstinate Peremptoriness. Go flapjacks!; 12/19/24, 12:53 PM
Jersey Fled said...: This isn’t over. We still need to get to the bottom of BF Wade’s involvement with the Biden Whitehouse.

More popcorn please.; 12/19/24, 12:56 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/19/24, 12:57 PM
Skeptical Voter said...: Ah Fani---managed to bite herself on the fanny through hubris. Who knew that here body was that flexible?; 12/19/24, 12:59 PM
Rocco said...: Reminder: Even though “Fani” is spelled as if it should be pronounced the same as “Fanny”, it does not. She wants it pronounced “Fah-ni”. It rhymes with “Nazi”. Not the other way. Remember, “Nah-zi”.; 12/19/24, 1:00 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: "Kemp is also the most popular politician in the state and has been an excellent Governor. Trump understands this."

Kemp won in 2018 only because of Trump's endorsement. He got 50.22 percent of the vote. In 2022, he got 53.41 percent. In 2022, Warnock, the re-elected D Senator, got 51.40 percent. Saying he's the most popular, is like saying he's the tallest dwarf.

As for "what could Kemp have done"? A pardon for one thing. Speaking out in favor Trump is another. Supporting an impeachment of Willis is another. Not supporting Raffensperger for re-election, would have been nice.

Oh, and not defending the 2020 election in GA by constantly saying there was "no fraud".; 12/19/24, 1:02 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: This was an obvious and absurd "Lawfare" case to destroy Trump. Yet, Kemp kept mostly silent and refuse to denounce it other than say "its a distraction". Its obvious that if Willis had been able to convict and jail Trump, "Republican" Kemp would've been perfectly happy.; 12/19/24, 1:05 PM
narciso said...: https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/12/19/melt-downs-over-fani-willis-getting-kicked-off-trumps-ga-case-n2405448; 12/19/24, 1:11 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Some people can’t bear the weight of the moment history has assigned them. Fani Willis is not a closer.; 12/19/24, 1:25 PM
Hassayamper said...: I have done very well with patient long-term dollar cost averaging, and I suspect I could buy and sell Fani. She doesn't strike me as a careful and prudent investor.

I keep $3,000 in American currency, 2000 euro, and about the same amount of Swiss francs in my personal safe, along with a dozen circulated St.-Gaudens double eagles, 5k in junk silver, and a loaded .38 revolver, none of which have any paper trail to me. It's purely insurance, not an investment. All income over my monthly nut goes into index funds as soon as I can spare it.; 12/19/24, 1:34 PM
Mr. T. said...: When the law spanks the Left in the Fani...; 12/19/24, 2:09 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Wade thinks Fani bears the weight just fine. Nathan and tha brothas like em thicc.; 12/19/24, 2:32 PM
Butkus51 said...: They got hm now!; 12/19/24, 2:51 PM
Clyde said...: I think the term is Bluesheviks.; 12/19/24, 2:54 PM
Mason G said...: Well, they're Democrats, so...; 12/19/24, 3:19 PM
Josephbleau said...: The GA prosecutors group has to select new county to take the case. But there are only a few counties that have a big enough budget to try the case. So it may be that no other wants to pay for it. The few counties that can are probably dem leaning due to being urban, but the jury in Fulton county would be the most biased against Trump, so it seems good to move it elsewhere, for the defense.; 12/19/24, 3:40 PM
Mikey NTH said...: I wonder when the case is moved to another county if that prosecutor could move to dismiss? I can't imagine there are many prosecutors that want to touch this mess.; 12/19/24, 4:12 PM
Aggie said...: Even with the judge (McAfee) telling her that she needed to remove herself from the case, she refused. She tried to play it Wrong and Strong - and now she's Gone.; 12/19/24, 4:16 PM
gilbar said...: The WALLS ARE CLOSING IN!!; 12/19/24, 6:50 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: "Monthly nut", Hassayamper? That was at the end of No Nut November.; 12/19/24, 11:43 PM
Tina Trent said...: As a very close observer, I’m still surprised at her behavior. A few years ago, she stood strong against the entire political and social establishment of Atlanta, actually jailing teachers who colluded to raise test scores, and violent rap stars with a lot of clout. I thought, finally Atlanta has a prosecutor doing something.

I think she had to come in from the cold and re-establish herself with the powers that be. But why the boy toy? She’s hardly a stupid person. Maybe he was a honeypot. I guess when she started down the slope of not thinking for herself, she just got in deeper and deeper. One person can’t change the culture of those courts and keep her job. A lesson for everyone, no matter what you think of this particular case.; 12/20/24, 4:15 AM
Rusty said...: " Do you report ANY of it?"
Pfft! Gold isn't money.; 12/20/24, 10:45 AM
Tina Trent said...: MM, ugh.; 12/21/24, 11:07 AM