Former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants requested on Monday that a judge allow them to appeal the decision not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from their election interference case in Georgia.
The co-defendants, who include Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, asked Judge Scott McAfee to grant them a “certificate of immediate review,” according to a court filing. If granted, the certificate would allow them to file an appeal to the decision McAfee made last week.
McAfee found, according to the highly anticipated order he issued on Friday, that Willis had created an appearance of a conflict of interest by, in part, failing to disclose a relationship she had with a special prosecutor she hired to work on the case. McAfee
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