Financially benefited from hiring wade and that that created a Conflict Of Interest now, todays ruling is a major victory for willis and her office. But it came with some Harsh Criticism from judge scott mcafee, Who Rebuked Willis for the relationship. And now says that it leaves a stain on the prosecutions team. Cnns Nick Valencia is live outside the courthouse. For us in fulton county, nyc. Youve been watching this case unfold for months . What stands out to you about the decision today well look, fani willis, there were some real concerns that she would be disqualified before today. And as it stands, shes going to be allowed to stay so long as she gets rid of the man whom she was romantically involved in and those close to fani willis or allies. They are seeing this as a big win its a huge win even if its only a technical win on paper. And even if it does come with some blistering criticism from the judge a massive indictment on her behavior. He called some of her testimony on Febru
A conflict because the big question here is whether there was an actual conflict. The defendants were alleging that fani willis and not only that she had this romantic relationship with a lead prosecutor on the trump case . Case, but then she also benefited financially and he had to decide the judge had to sort of do this analysis. Is it enough that its just looks bad, but theres an appearance of a conflict or did they need to prove to the defendants at trump and his codefendants need to prove that there was an actual conflict now, again, i say that day fani willis can stay on this case. It also appears that the judge is saying that this appearance issue needs to be addressed before this can go forward. So this appears to be a pretty nuanced a ruling, but the headline is that the District Attorney at her office can stay on this case, but we continue to read to learn more about exactly what the judge is saying, about how you need to address the appearance of impropriety right . Paula re
He says there are serious and credible allegations and listed abuse of power, obstruction and corruption. The white house calls it red meat for the extreme right wing. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram has details tonight live on capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy talked about impeachment for weeks. Now he is doing something about it. I am correcting our House Committee to open a formal Impeachment Inquiry into president joe biden. This is exactly what many conservatives clamored for since summer. The entire biden family has been enriched by tens of millions of dollars. They sold out joe bidens power. Republicans say the allegations warrant investigation because of the socalled Sweetheart Deal hunter biden was initially offered in the presbyterian into his business dealings. It appears that the president s family hab offered special treatment by bidens own administration. Treatment that not otherwise would have received if t
A Georgia appeals court stayed until October the racketeering case alleging Donald Trump conspired to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The Georgia Court of Appeals in October plans to hear Donald Trump's appeal to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case related to the former president's attempt to overturn the 2020 election.