Judge throws Fani Willis a lifeline, when he should have tossed whole case against Trump
By Social Links for Jonathan Turley
Published March 15, 2024, 12:56 p.m. ET
Many commentators reviewing the decision of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to disqualify lead special counsel Nathan Wade but not Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis as “Solomonic” or “splitting the baby” in the Trump prosecution.
Indeed, it was similar in all but one respect. The baby at issue before King Solomon survived. The whole point of the story was not to kill the baby but to see which of the two women loved the baby more.
In the story from 1 Kings 3:16–28, two mothers claim the male child, and Solomon declares that each can get one half. One mother immediately accepts while the second woman begs him to just give the first woman the child and not to kill him.
Solomon immediately gives the second woman — clearly the mother who loves the baby — the child.
But if either Wade or Willis truly loved “their baby” — the case against former President Donald Trump — they would have removed themselves weeks ago.
Their personal controversies have derailed the case and mired the prosecution in scandal. Ethically, this should not have been a difficult question. They should have stepped aside.
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