The judge overseeing Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case is running for reelection this month. So is the case's top prosecutor. It's a unique subplot to an unprecedented case.
Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee leans against a 1965 Cadillac Fleetwood that has been in his family for years, while campaigning at a parade in Atlanta on April 27. McAfee, the trial judge in the Georgia election interference case, is up for reelection this month in a nonpartisan race.this year — always at the bench and robed in black as he presides over the Georgia election interference case involving former President Donald Trump.
Elsewhere in Fulton County, Republican state Sen. Shawn Still, a Trump co-defendant who signed onto a false slate of electors for Trump and has also pleaded not guilty, is up for reelection this year as well.Republican Gov. Brian Kemp appointed McAfee, then 33, to fill a vacant seat in 2022. Seven months later, the court randomly assigned him the Trump case. Now, McAfee is running for a full term, facing an opponent this month in a nonpartisan race.
"In terms of my judicial philosophy, I think that's been on display and folks can take account of it as they will," he says."When someone's going to appear in front of me, it's not about a party platform or a set of ironclad ideals."— on defendants' claims that Willis' romantic relationship with a special prosecutor tainted the case with a conflict of interest — drew praise and pushback, for going too far or not far enough.
"I felt like she knew how buttoned up she had to be," Martin says, of the DA."Dot all your i's, cross all your t's. And then for this to come out, how could you let that happen? I still think it didn't have much to do with the actual merits of the case, so I'm glad she was able to stay on, but it was really a bang-your-head-against-the-wall moment."Willis is also campaigning for election, also in the parade.
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