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A defiant Fani Willis in court

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Willis must be very surprised that her little grifting scheme with her boyfriend has seen the light of day and is getting her into trouble. She’s used to being a powerful person in the courtroom and elsewhere, and I assume she thought she could get away with this and be the great Trump-slayer as well. It seems to me that she felt immune from discovery or being called to explain herself.

But her plan has hit a possible snag. No need for me to go into the details; I’ll just link to some bloggers covering the story quite heavily: there’s this and this from Ace; this and this at RedState; and this and this at Legal Insurrection.

Willis and Wade are a disgrace. But it’s not at all clear whether they’ll have the Trump case taken away from them or not, and what sort of censure – if any – they face from the legal community.

Trump has sometimes been lucky in his enemies. But I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

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A defiant Fani Willis in court — 14 Comments

  1. They may have the Trump case taken way but other than that nothing will happen to them and she will be reelected.

    All these people going on about the IRS and FEC are delusional.

    C’mon man!

  2. Trump has sometimes been lucky in his enemies.

    We have people who are willing to bend the law to absurd levels, people who trash precedences, ignore best practices, conduct lawfare for political purposes, and are completely unrepentant about it all. It’s not exactly surprising to discover that such people are themselves unethical, immoral, stupid, and in general fairly reprehensible in their private lives. Trump’s no Saint, but these people are downright awful.

  4. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if the funny looking New York Judge who just fined Trump $364 million has some strange proclivities. Yeah, I know it’s silly to judge a person on their appearence, but he is an odd looking duck.

  5. the only think kafka got wrong, is he didn’t think the judges would be insectoid,

  6. Another brick in the wall, or something like that, closing off the dream of a fair American justice system.

  8. How bad is Atlanta, historically? I know that New York hasn’t had an honest judicial system (or political, generally) since at least the mid-19th C.

  9. From Friday morning, we have MSNBC declaring that Fani lied! Perjured herself. From X:

    JUST IN: MSNBC admits defeat, says Fani Willis will be disqualified because she allegedly “lied to the court.”

    “This is epic, this is monumental… Fani Willis lied to the court, it’s game over for her. She will be disqualified.”

    MSNBC was reacting to statements from Willis’ former friend Robin Yeartie who said she has no doubt Willis and prosecutor Nathan Wade had a “romantic” relationship in 2019 & on.

    This suggests Willis lied to the court when she claimed there was no romantic relationship in 2021 between the two.

    “You have no doubt that their romantic relationship was in effect from 2019 until the last time you spoke with her?” attorney Ashleigh Merchant asked.

    “No doubt,” Yeartie replied.
    https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1758190385803960746?

    This is likely good news, almost the best news, Team Trump could have hoped for.

  10. Turley has IMO the best explanation of how the two tier justice operates in his post on Willis.

    https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/16/215741/

    Willis Goes Full Trump . . . and May Get Away With It
    …
    Outside the court, some on the left celebrated her confrontational, combative style. Where Trump was unhinged, Willis was unbowed. Where Trump’s rage was threatening, Willis’s rage was righteous.

    That is not the only time that Trump came to mind after Wade and Willis took the stand.

    In the Georgia prosecution, Willis is relying a great deal on a recorded conversation of Trump with Georgia election officials as they discussed what Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger described as a settlement discussion of Trump’s election fraud claims. Trump wanted a recount and the officials insisted that it was not likely to produce enough votes to make a difference. Trump insisted that “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.”

    Critics insist that Trump was clearly pushing the officials to simply invent the votes when he pushed them to “find” the votes. Trump maintains that he was saying that that was not many votes to find statewide to potentially change the outcome.

    In the end, critics dismiss any other meaning of “find” as playing semantics.

    Yet, both Wade and Willis had their own struggles over key words in the hearing on Thursday.
    …

    Those interpretations of key words are considered by Wade and Willis to be fair game. However, an alternative meaning of what was meant by the word “find” is clearly not only unreasonable but a basis for prosecution.

    None of this is likely to end the Georgia case. Even if Wade and Willis were disqualified, it is likely that the court would allow the case to move forward under their subordinates. Moreover, Willis may have succeeded in giving McAfee enough to express condemnation with her conduct but to reject her disqualification.

    If so, the court would ignore that fact that both Wade and Willis are accused of making false statements to courts not just in their testimony this week but prior filings. They would be allowed to prosecute defendants in the Georgia case charged with making such false statements in court filings.

    In the end, Willis knew her audience. She knew that the judge would likely allow her to control her own testimony. She knew that many in the public would view her combative testimony as justified, even inspiring. The fact is that she is not Trump and, for many, that is enough.

  11. Fani Willis’ father, Jussie Smollet’s mother, Chesa Boudin’s adoptive parents, Frank Marshall Davis, Angela Davis…

    They all did an admirable job of instilling their values to the next generation. They did not abdicate the responsibility of raising their children to the State.

  14. I grew up in Oakland. I don’t have a type when it comes to women. I love them, and that’s it. I could expound on my absolute love for women but it’s been written. Black Marigolds, how many centuries ago?

    This croaking creature from Atlanta does nothing for me. That’s saying a lot. Apparently I have standards after all.

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