Fani Willis to continue as top prosecutor in Trump Georgia case

Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling comes after hearing on Willis’s romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade

A judge in Georgia has ruled that the district attorney Fani Willis can continue to head the prosecution of Donald Trump for trying to undermine the 2020 presidential election in the state, as long as a top deputy steps down.

The ruling came after hearings that offered a dramatic deviation from the racketeering case against Trump and 14 remaining co-defendants as it investigated Willis’s romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor in the case.