Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis thought she was going to become a superstar when she indicted Donald Trump in August 2023.
But Willis is in for some bad news.
And now Fani Willis is facing game over with this Donald Trump request to a judge.
Trump seeks to have Georgia case dismissed
Fani Willis’ indictment of Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants for contesting the results of the 2020 election was always a Constitutional abomination.
Willis essentially indicted Trump for seeking legal advice and asking for a recount.
It was an attempt to criminalize the act of a Republican seeking to examine the results of an election.
The case was already sinking because of Willis’ sex scandal with Nathan Wade which led to a motion to disqualify Willis.
And the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling blew another torpedo-sized hole in the charges.
But the final blow came on Election Day when Donald Trump won a second term.
Trump’s lawyer Steve Sadow asked the court in Georgia to dismiss the case as a sitting President is immune from prosecution.
“A sitting President is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal,” Sadow wrote.
Sadow also cited multiple Supreme Court rulings, dating back to Marbury v. Madison holding that states had no authority over the federal government.
“'[S]tates have no power . . . to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations’ of the federal government,” Sadow added.
In the filing, Sadow said allowing the case to continue would interfere with Trump’s ability to carry out his duties as President.
Sadow added that “the continued indictment and prosecution of President Trump by the State of Georgia are unconstitutional. President Trump respectfully submits that upon reaching that decision, this Court should dismiss his appeal for lack of jurisdiction with directions to the trial court to immediately dismiss the indictment against President Trump.”
Sadow also argued it was preposterous to allow a local prosecutor – who is elected by one county – to hold the fate of the President of the United States – elected by the entire country – in her hands by delaying the trial for four years until Donald Trump left office in 2029.
“That is particularly true where, as here, there is compelling evidence of local bias and political prejudice against the President by the local prosecutor, who not only answers to a tiny segment of the American electorate but is acting in clear opposition to the will of the citizens of Georgia, as reflected by the recent election results,” Sadow wrote.
Fani Willis will be lucky if she only escapes with the court dismissing the case.
When Judge Scott McAfee initially allowed Willis to stay in the case, he all but accused her of perjury, saying her testimony about when her relationship with Wade began carried an “odor of mendacity.”
Trump supporters in Georgia – and elsewhere – think the end of this case should serve as the beginning of perjury charges against Willis.
