Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, overseeing former President Trump’s election interference case, won her reelection bid.
The latest: Willis cruised to an easy victory in reliably blue Fulton County against Republican challenger Courtney Kramer, a former White House legal intern in the Trump administration.
Willis’ office indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants in August 2023 on a slate of felony charges related to attempts to flip Georgia’s 2020 election results.
Trump’s lawyers have been fighting to remove Willis from the case, citing as a conflict of interest her relationship with a special prosecutor she’d hired to work on it.
As a result, Trump’s trial has been delayed repeatedly and won’t occur until after the presidential inauguration in January at the earliest.
Willis is using Georgia’s racketeering, or RICO, laws to pursue her case against Trump — a strategy she has employed in other cases, and one that has its critics.
Her office used the same RICO laws against rapper Young Thug and co-defendants in another sprawling and high-profile case that has claimed the record for Georgia’s longest-ever trial.
That trial is ongoing, though its chief co-defendant Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, resolved his part in it last week, as did several other co-defendants.