We’ve never seen such a brazen effort by Republican appointed judges to protect the GOP’s political power as we are seeing play out right in front of our eyes with Donald Trump’s three remaining criminal cases. They are not even trying to hide their efforts to help convicted felon Trump win in 2024 by delaying his criminal cases so that their presidential nominee is not convicted of even more felonies before the November election.
The latest example came Wednesday when the Georgia Court of Appeals paused Trump’s criminal case in Fulton County where he faces ten felonies—including a RICO charge—for his illegal efforts to overturn the 2020 election in that state. As a reminder, Trump and his co-defendant had made a motion to disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis and her offices from handling the case because of a romantic relationship Willis had with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired to help handle the case. In March, the trial judge denied that motion and allowed Trump and his co-defendant’s criminal cases to proceed.
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