Appeals court halts Trump's Georgia election case while appeal on Willis disqualification pending

An appeals tribunal has halted the Georgia predetermination interference lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and others portion it reviews the little tribunal judge's ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to stay connected the case.

The Georgia Court of Appeals' bid Wednesday prevents Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee from moving guardant with different matters successful the lawsuit portion the entreaty is pending. The bid volition undoubtedly further hold the lawsuit due to the fact that McAfee volition not beryllium capable to proceed to grip pretrial motions successful the lawsuit arsenic helium had planned.

FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a quality conference, Aug. 14, 2023, successful Atlanta.

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The appeals tribunal connected Monday docketed the appeals filed by Trump and 8 others and said that "if oral statement is requested and granted" it is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 4. The tribunal volition past person until mid-March to rule, and the losing broadside volition past beryllium capable to entreaty to the Georgia Supreme Court.

A Fulton County expansive assemblage successful August indicted Trump and 18 others, accusing them of participating successful a sprawling strategy to illegally effort to overturn the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination successful Georgia. Four defendants person pleaded blameworthy aft reaching deals with prosecutors, but Trump and the others person pleaded not guilty. It is 1 of 4 transgression cases against Trump.

Trump and 8 different defendants had tried to get Willis and her bureau removed from the case, arguing that a romanticist narration she had with peculiar authoritative Nathan Wade created a struggle of interest. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee successful March recovered that nary struggle of involvement existed that should unit Willis disconnected the case, but helium granted a petition from Trump and the different defendants to question an entreaty of his ruling from the authorities Court of Appeals.