a charge until there been an opportunity for it to be a process through a court case. clark cunningham, professor of law georgia state university college of law. thank you very much for attention, and your clarity. i really appreciate it, sir. as i mentioned, this is an important, weird wrinkle in this georgia prosecution. there are not very many people who ve been following this in terms of what it could eventually do. georgia republicans are saying what they want to use it for already. i don t think i quite understand the process. they re gonna file a complaint. and then there s a commission, and the commission makes the decision? it s a brand-new law, never been used before. what it looks like on paper, i could walk you through it. how it s gonna work in progress, i don t know. who makes the decision? the commission makes the decision. for example, who appoints the commission? well, no democrats will be involved in appointing any members of the commission. in fact, the dem
effort to remove fani willis from her job as prosecutor right as this thing could be going to trial. now, i should note, this new power to remove prosecutors is already being challenged in court in georgia. earlier this month, a bipartisan group of dea from different georgia counties filed a lawsuit, saying this is a power grab, it threatens the independence of the judiciary. the de-age who brought that lawsuit were also prescient about how it would be worked. how it would be used, cobb county district attorney s curtly s serving the, a sherrie boston, one of the prosecutors who brought the lawsuit. she is overtly warning, that pro trump republicans would use this law to try to take out fani willis, and and the trump prosecution. in fact, georgia republicans are already promising that that s what they were going to try to do, as of october 1st. as we watch the trump plane sit on the tarmac and get ready to take off the head back to new jersey, i want to bring another
well, the law specifies, particular reasons that undeterred returnee could be removed. what you ve described, willful misconduct in office, would be one basis for removal. there is a very general phrase, conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. which brings the office into disrepute. perhaps that s the one that they might be thinking of. let me say, i would expect, if the commission operated as one should expect it to do, that it would not interfere with the pending criminal case. if president trump believes he s the victim of prosecution, or selective prosecution, he can bring that up in court himself. i suspect, if this commission were operating properly, they would not consider that kind of
republican governor in georgia. are the republican governor brian can t, or any other republican governor that might succeed him. a lot of states, a governor can pardon someone, accused of, or convicted, of state crimes. in georgia, because a previous governor abuse, the governor longer has that power. so, that is one of thenotable things about this prosecution, as compared to the other three that he s facing. a pardon is not going to save donald trump in georgia. however, knowing that, once this case was well underway, and pretty clearly, moving toward indictment, georgia republicans gave themselves a new power to make this case go away for donald trump, if they decide to. not a pardon power, something, in some ways, better. a power to remove the prosecutor from her job. this is a new law, signed an, maybe republican governor brian kemp. they moved up the start date of the law, so it actually goes into effect on october 1st this year. i have to say, with all due respect, all the press
the ground in the city? jason, it s really tense. i would say republicans want to talk about anything but this. you re not hearing governor brian kemp, not hearing other republican state officials talk about these potential indictments because they would rather talk about anything but this. they would rather talk about how this is in their view a politicized prosecution and really steer clear from it. a lot of these senior republicans here in georgia are no fans of donald trump. the governor brian kemp, geoff duncan, secretary of state brad raffensperger are targets of his bullying campaign, his pressure campaign to overturn the georgia election in 2020. joyce, this is the case that i think is the most practical and probably one of the easiest for people to understand. just sort of give our audience a breakdown here. what are we looking at with this sort of georgia prosecution? what are the witnesses doing now, where is this in the process? this is just they finish with the witness