The judge appears to be more concerned with his re-election than applying the laws.
Judge throws Fani Willis a lifeline, when he should have tossed whole case against Trump
Many commentators reviewing the decision of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to disqualify lead special counsel Nathan Wade but not Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis as “Solomonic” or “splitting the baby” in the Trump prosecution.
Indeed, it was similar in all but one respect. The baby at issue before King Solomon survived. The whole point of the story was not to kill the baby but to see which of the two women loved the baby more.
In the story from 1 Kings 3:16–28, two mothers claim the male child, and Solomon declares that each can get one half. One mother immediately accepts while the second woman begs him to just give the first woman the child and not to kill him.
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But if either Wade or Willis truly loved “their baby” — the case against former President Donald Trump — they would have removed themselves weeks ago.
Their personal controversies have derailed the case and mired the prosecution in scandal. Ethically, this should not have been a difficult question. They should have stepped aside.
That conclusion is more than evident in McAfee’s decision, which shreds their claims on the stand and outside of the courthouse.
The court describes Willis’ controversial speech at a church as “’playing the race card … to cast racial aspersions at an indicted Defendant’s decision to file this pretrial motion.”
He hammers Willis for her lack of professional judgment and stresses, with perhaps an unintentional pun, that “providing this type of public comment creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into.”
McAfee also indicates that the testimony of Wade failed to resolve questions of filing false statements to a prior court and that his testimony on when the relationship began stood contradicted.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/opini...-should-have-tossed-whole-case-against-trump/
Judge throws Fani Willis a lifeline, when he should have tossed whole case against Trump
Many commentators reviewing the decision of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to disqualify lead special counsel Nathan Wade but not Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis as “Solomonic” or “splitting the baby” in the Trump prosecution.
Indeed, it was similar in all but one respect. The baby at issue before King Solomon survived. The whole point of the story was not to kill the baby but to see which of the two women loved the baby more.
In the story from 1 Kings 3:16–28, two mothers claim the male child, and Solomon declares that each can get one half. One mother immediately accepts while the second woman begs him to just give the first woman the child and not to kill him.
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But if either Wade or Willis truly loved “their baby” — the case against former President Donald Trump — they would have removed themselves weeks ago.
Their personal controversies have derailed the case and mired the prosecution in scandal. Ethically, this should not have been a difficult question. They should have stepped aside.
That conclusion is more than evident in McAfee’s decision, which shreds their claims on the stand and outside of the courthouse.
The court describes Willis’ controversial speech at a church as “’playing the race card … to cast racial aspersions at an indicted Defendant’s decision to file this pretrial motion.”
He hammers Willis for her lack of professional judgment and stresses, with perhaps an unintentional pun, that “providing this type of public comment creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into.”
McAfee also indicates that the testimony of Wade failed to resolve questions of filing false statements to a prior court and that his testimony on when the relationship began stood contradicted.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/opini...-should-have-tossed-whole-case-against-trump/
