Appeals court halts Trump’s Georgia case during appeal of order allowing Willis to stay on case

By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press FILE – Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a news conference, Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta. Voters in Georgia, Kentucky, Oregon, and Idaho will hold state primaries to choose nominees for U.S. House and other contests. Willis, who is leading the prosecution of Trump in a 2020 election interference case, faces challenger Christian Wise Smith in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has halted the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others while it reviews the lower court judge’s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case. The Georgia Court of Appeals’ order on Wednesday prevents Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee from moving forward with pretrial motions as he had planned while the appeal is pending. While it was already unlikely that the case would go to trial before the November general election, when Trump is expected to be the Republican nominee for president, this makes that even more certain. The appeals court on Monday docketed the appeals filed by Trump and eight others and said that “if...