President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team has asked the Georgia Supreme Court to deny Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s bid to overturn her disqualification from an election interference case against Trump and a number of co-defendants.
In a petition filed on Jan. 17, Trump’s lawyers urged the Georgia Supreme Court to deny Willis’s request for a review of an appellate court’s decision to disqualify her from the case due to an “appearance of impropriety.” Willis had argued that the Georgia Court of Appeals incorrectly disqualified her from the case by overreaching its authority and creating a new standard for disqualifying a prosecutor.
