Trump’s Georgia election interference case paused as court considers disqualifying lead prosecutor
theguardian.com
To quote the related NYT article, "The order means the prosecution of Donald J. Trump in Georgia is effectively frozen, at least through the presidential election."
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Fuck that, we should not expect people to give up their personal lives and their relationships to appease psychos.
She stood for election to public office. During the campaign she literally said that she would not have sex with her employees (referring obliquely to a scandal of her predecessor).
She fucked up.
We don't expect that. But we do expect someone who went to law school would have the brain to see the apparent conflicts, appearance problems, and not hire them to work on the most high profile case she will ever work on.
This wasn't a couple of teenage lovebirds who didn't know any better. These are two career lawyers who were playing shell games with money to hide an affair while bringing charges against one of the most powerful people in the country, with unlimited resources, and a decades-long track record of finding ways to exploit even the most irrelevant weakness he can find to get his way. This was poor judgement at best.