Fani Willis pushes back on latest Trump effort to remove her from prosecuting Georgia election subversion case

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is pushing back on the latest attempt by former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants to disqualify her entire office from prosecuting the election subversion case in Georgia, according to a new court filing Monday.

Willis asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to uphold Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s initial ruling that allowed her to remain on the criminal case if her top prosecutor, Nathan Wade, resigned. Wade resigned within hours of McAfee’s ruling last month.

The appeals court is weighing a request from Trump and several others charged in Georgia to review and overturn McAfee’s earlier decision.

Willis argued on Monday that the appeals court should deny that request.

“There being no error by the trial court, the present application merely reflects the applicants’ dissatisfaction with the trial court’s proper application of well-established law to the facts,” Willis and her team wrote in Monday’s filing. “Because the applicants have wholly failed to carry their burden of persuasion, this Court should decline interlocutory review.”

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis attends a hearing on the Georgia election interference case on Friday in Atlanta.

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In Monday’s filing, the Fulton County district attorney’s office insisted again that there was no conflict of interest and said that Willis’ comments about race playing a role in criticism of her office did not rise to misconduct requiring disqualification.

“Given the trial court’s factual findings, which are supported by the record, the trial court