A Georgia judge has criticized the Fulton County district attorney for her comments on race, opening the way for Trump to sue for defamation.
Donald Trump could sue Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for defamation, a legal expert has said.It follows 'damning' comments by Scott McAfee, the trial judge in Trump's election fraud trial in Georgia, in which he said Willis' comments casting 'racial aspersions' on Trump and his co-defendants was 'wading further into dangerous waters.'Willis is the district attorney for Fulton County, which covers most of Atlanta.
''The rationale behind this immunity is that prosecutors, like judges, should be free to make decisions properly within the purview of their official duties without being influenced by the shadow of liability,' Kerwick said. 'The determining factor appears to be whether the act or omission is intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.
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