BREAKING: Fani Willis DISQUALIFIED from Trump case by Georgia appeals court

On Thursday, a Georgia appeals court disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from overseeing the Georgia 2020 prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and other defendants in the case, but allowed the indictment against them to stand, per CNBC. 

It will now be up to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to find another prosecutor to take over the case and decide whether to pursue it, the Associated Press reported. The case could, however, be further delayed if Willis decides to appeal to the state Supreme Court. 

The case has largely stalled in recent months as the Georgia Court of Appeals weighed whether to disqualify Willis from the case. 

This comes after the appeals court canceled an early December hearing on the matter, writing that arguments were "hereby canceled until further order of this Court."

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March that there was a "significant appearance of impropriety" and either Willis or special prosecutor Nathan Wade had to step down from the case. Wade was the one to do so. McAfee said that Trump and others in the case had "failed to meet their burden" of proving Willis’ romantic relationship with Wade and that there was a "conflict of interest." 

Trump and eight co-defendants argued in appellate filings that only Wade leaving the case was not enough to resolve the "appearance of impropriety" which has "cast a pall over these entire proceedings." They said McAfee’s ruling was an "erroneous failure," the filings stated, and a "structural error that would not just cause substantial error at the trial" but could lead to the verdict being overturned later.