Former President Donald Trump has gotten fantastic news in his criminal case in Fulton County, Georgia.
CNN’s Senior Legal Analyst and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Elie Honig, said now that the Georgia appellate court paused the case against the former president it may never get to trial.
“It’s over. Let’s be realistic. It’s not happening before the 2024 election. It’s not happening in 2024. It’s maybe not happening at all,” he said. “Now, look, the appeals court, we can never predict what they’re going to do. But there’s some things we know for sure. Number one, they didn’t have to take this case, the appeal, and they chose to. The other thing is they didn’t have to pause the district court.”
“There is a separate issue that Trump and the other defendants are going to raise that I think is a bigger deal, which is Fani Willis’ inappropriate comments about the case outside of court,” the analyst said.
Three appeals court judges, chosen by Republican governors, will decide whether District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from Fulton County’s election meddling lawsuit against Trump.
The Georgia Court of Appeals officially accepted the case on Monday, and the designations followed. October 4th was the preliminary date set for oral arguments.
A computer-generated random selection process was used to assign judges Todd Markle, Trenton Brown, and Benjamin Land to hear what is expected to be the court’s most high-profile appeal.
The judges selected to hear a high-profile appeal were Todd Markle, Trenton Brown, and Benjamin Land.
Ashleigh Merchant, a Marietta attorney, has announced that she will ask the court to hear oral arguments on behalf of Mike Roman, one of Trump’s 14 remaining co-defendants in the racketeering case. Merchant filed in January as the first defense lawyer to move for Willis’ disqualification in the case.