Updated: 4:52 p.m.
In a 176-page filing, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis acknowledged a personal relationship with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade. Still, she argued that motions to disqualify her from the Georgia election interference case are “meritless” and should be dismissed “without further spectacle.”
The response filed in the court docket on Friday came nearly a month after defendant Michael Roman alleged an improper relationship between Willis and Wade. Roman, who worked on then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, argued that the relationship created a conflict of interest that should render his indictment moot and called on the judge to disqualify Willis and her team from prosecuting him.
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