Opinion | Fani Willis should not have been disqualified from prosecuting Trump in Georgia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "I can't help but wonder how the appeals court judges "public confidence."
54% : Nevertheless, the appeals court concluded that disqualification was required because "no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.
45% : Whether it's a trickle-down effect from the high court or just a shared love of untethered jurisprudence, the Georgia Court of Appeals displayed remarkable disrespect for both precedent and common sense in reversing trial judge Scott McAfee's decision and finding that DA Willis and her entire office must be disqualified from the Georgia election interference case brought against Donald Trump and eight co-defendants.
35% : Unless the judges are conducting polls or devoted to the engagement on Trump's Truth Social or Elon Musk's X and other social media, then they lack any basis to judge public confidence in any given case.
26% : Trump and his co-defendants had initially asked Judge McAfee to dismiss the case entirely under the theory that an alleged romantic relationship between Willis and another prosecutor -- Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to work on the prosecution -- prejudiced the case against the defendants.
21% : Trump and his co-defendants appealed, and the appeals court on Thursday made the nonsensical decision to reverse McAfee and order Willis and her entire office disqualified.

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