Fani Willis reelected as Fulton County District Attorney

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been reelected to her office, the Associated Press reported. The Georgia prosecutor has headed the since-paused Georgia election case against President Donald Trump, and spoke of bringing charges against Trump for disputing the results of the 2020 even before she assumed her official duties.

Democrat Willis defeated her Republican challenger, Courtney Kramer, who was an intern for the White House counsel’s office while Trump was in office. She is active in the Republican network. Kramer had high hopes of becoming the DA even though Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, is overwhelmingly Democratic. Willis was declared the winner taking 68 percent of the vote to 32 percent for Kramer, according to 11 Alive.

Willis was first elected in January 2021 after she bounced her predecessor Paul Howard in a Democratic primary and faced no Republican challenger in the general election. She had barely occupied her new office when she began investigating Trump for alleged election interference. The result was a racketeering indictment against Trump in August 2023.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and the case has been suspended while he and other defendants are appealing a judge’s ruling that permitted Willis to stay on as prosecutor even though Willis and a special prosecutor on the case were romanitally involved. "I don't feel like we've been slowed down at all," Willis said about the relationship. "I don't feel like my reputation needs to be reclaimed. Let's say it for the record, I'm not embarrassed by anything that I've done." The chief of public affairs at the Department of Justice admitted that the Trump indictments constituted a “perversion of justice.”