Judge disqualifies Fulton County DA from portion of Trump 2020 election inquiry – By Ryan King (Washington Examiner) / July 25, 2022
A Georgia judge disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis Monday from overseeing a key aspect of her inquiry into whether crimes transpired during the 2020 election.
Willis is disqualified from subpoenaing or criminally investigating state Sen. Burt Jones, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, because of a fundraiser she attended last month for a potential rival of Jones. The state senator had been a focus of her inquiry.
“An investigation of this significance, garnering the public attention it necessarily does and touching so many political nerves in our society, cannot be burdened by legitimate doubts about the District Attorney’s motives,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote, siding with Jones’s motion to disqualify her.
Willis had participated in a fundraiser for Democratic lieutenant governor hopeful Charlie Bailey, who was mired in a runoff for the Democratic nod for lieutenant governor, a race he ultimately won. Roughly $32,000 had been raised for Bailey’s campaign at the fundraiser, according to Jones’s lawyers.
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