Prosecutors in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump, seeking to continue their effort, are asking for the dismissal of an appeal of a ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue her prosecution of the former president and others.
In the motion to dismiss filed Wednesday with the Georgia Court of Appeals, prosecutors said there is not sufficient evidence to support reversing the lower court’s order. Trump and eight other defendants in the case are seeking to have Willis and her office removed from the case and to have the case dismissed entirely.
They argue that a romantic relationship Willis had with special prosecutor Nathan Wade resulted in a conflict of interest. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee in March ruled that there was not a conflict that should force Willis off the case, but he said there was an “appearance of impropriety.”
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