Lawyers in Fulton County, Georgia, will deliver their final arguments on Friday over whether District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump.
Judge Scott McAfee will oversee the hearing, which will take place at 1 p.m. and be livestreamed, following a string of contentious hearings this month that was capped off by a surprise dump of text messages that shed last-minute light on the case.
Defense attorneys for Trump and other co-defendants have argued Willis should be disqualified because the case has been irreversibly tainted by a conflict of interest. Their arguments came after one of the co-defendants revealed last month that Willis was romantically involved with Nathan Wade, a private sector attorney she hired to help prosecute Trump and 18 others.
Willis and Wade have since
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