A Georgia appeals court on Monday canceled oral arguments that were scheduled for next month on the appeal of a lower court ruling that had allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against President-elect Donald Trump. Trump and other defendants had asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hold oral arguments in the case, and the court had set those arguments for Dec. 5. But in a one-line order with no further explanation, the appeals court said that hearing “is hereby canceled until further order of this Court,” the Associated Press reports. With Trump set to return to the White House in January, the future of the case against the once and future president was already in question even if the Court of Appeals ultimately says Willis shouldn’t be disqualified.
A Fulton County grand jury in August 2023 indicted Trump and 18 others, accusing them of participating in a sprawling scheme to illegally try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Four defendants have pleaded guilty after reaching deals with prosecutors, but Trump and the others have pleaded not guilty. Allegations that Willis had improperly benefited from her romance with special prosecutor Nathan Wade resulted in a tumultuous couple of months in the case after intimate details of Willis and Wade’s personal lives were aired in court in mid-February.
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