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Judges Trenton Brown, Todd Markle and Benjamin A. Land — the three judge panel appointed to review the case... “While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” the order read.

I dunno about you, but I do not feel like Trenton Brown, Todd Markle, or Benjamin Land have restored any confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.

If the decision is not overturned, a state agency that advises Georgia prosecutors would be tasked with finding a prosecutor unaffiliated with Fulton County to take on the matter — a move that many believe would ultimately lead to the case being dismissed

ahh yes, a loophole that many poor defendants abuse

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This ought to boost people's confidence in the judicial system.

We're really speedrunning this whole autocracy thing, aren't we?

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa

Does anyone believe that the appellate court would reach the same conclusion for a poor, Black man facing the death penalty?

I'm going to have to go against the grain here. This should have been expected, and should have been the result from the start.

Fani Willis' personal life is her own business. But when you are dealing with a case this important against this defendant, you dot every I and cross every T. You leave nothing to chance, and you don't give off even a whiff of impropriety. She did not, and both of them ended up tainting the case trying to cover up their affair. Go back and watch Nathan Wade's testimony. The man constantly has a look on his face and gave carefully crafted testimony coming from someone who knew they were caught with their arm elbow-deep in the cookie jar. She should have recused herself from the case and handed it over to a colleague as soon as word of the affair became public. Her own hubris wouldn't allow her to do that, and she tanked the case as a result. She should consider herself lucky that the only thing that happened was some public embarrassment and her being forcibly removed from this case, because her conduct would absolutely warrant disbarrment. She gets a lot of sympathy because the defendant is Trump, but if it were anybody else, people would rightly be calling for her head.

This case wasn't brought down by a corrupt judge looking to advance her own career by ruling in Trump's favor. It wasn't brought down by a Supreme Court looking to anoint a king. It was brought down by two people who couldn't keep their pants on and did not take the position they were in seriously at all.

And with all of that said, it doesn't matter anyway as there was no way the case was going to go forward against a sitting President. But there is at least a non-zero chance (slim, admittedly, but still non-zero) that this case would have proceeded before the election if they hadn't been delayed for months investigating Fani Willis' and Nathan Wade's conduct.

This isn't a failure of the justice system. This is proof that at least some parts of the justice system are still working as intended, even if the beneficiary is Trump. If you want to blame someone for tanking this case, blame the two people who decided that having an affair while prosecuting the most powerful person in the country in the most important case in the country's history and using money earmarked to fund said prosecution to cover up the affair was a good idea. If the defendant were literally anybody else, people would be rightly demanding her disbarrment.

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