{"id":1212,"date":"2024-03-16T01:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/fani-willis-ruling-on-georgia-trump-election-case\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T01:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:08:21","slug":"fani-willis-ruling-on-georgia-trump-election-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/fani-willis-ruling-on-georgia-trump-election-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Fani Willis ruling on Georgia Trump election case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/240314103524-donald-trump-fani-willis-split-hp-video.jpg?resize=256,144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Fani Willis ruling on Georgia Trump election case\" title=\"Fani Willis ruling on Georgia Trump election case\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">The clock will soon begin ticking for potential appeals to be filed over Judge Scott McAfee\u2019s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2024\/03\/15\/politics\/takeaways-mcafee-willis-wade-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continue overseeing Trump\u2019s election interference case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">Both Willis and the defense attorneys who mounted the disqualification effort could \u2013 for different reasons \u2013 decide to pursue an appeal of the ruling. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">Under Georgia law, either side must first ask McAfee to grant them permission to appeal his ruling and he must respond within the next 10 days. That window begins Saturday, putting the deadline at March 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">Should the judge agree to grant what\u2019s known as a \u201ccertificate of immediate review,\u201d the party pursuing the appeal then has another 10 days to ask the Georgia Court of Appeals to take up their appeal. Once that request is in, the appeals court has 45 days to decide whether to take the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">A decision from the Court of Appeals could be appealed further to the Supreme Court of Georgia, which also has discretion over which cases it hears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\"><strong>Key context: <\/strong>Trump&#8217;s attorney has already signaled that he plans to pursue an appeal. The former president&#8217;s primary strategy in his criminal cases has been to delay trials past the November election. Already, he&#8217;s successfully pushed back the trial in the election subversion case brought by special counsel Jack Smith in Washington, DC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\"><em>The post has been updated with more background on the appeal process.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clock will soon begin ticking for potential appeals to be filed over Judge Scott McAfee\u2019s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue overseeing Trump\u2019s election interference case. Both Willis and the defense attorneys who mounted the disqualification effort could \u2013 for different reasons \u2013 decide to pursue an appeal of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/240314103524-donald-trump-fani-willis-split-hp-video.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[1287,50,1870,1869,1873,369,1872,52,1871],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}