A Georgia judge ruled that Fulton County’s district attorney and her staff cannot question Georgia’s Republican nominee for lieutenant governor over his role in contesting the 2020 presidential election because she hosted a fundraiser for his rival.
, Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney reasoned that Fani Willis’s decision to endorse Charlie Bailey during his runoff in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor “creates a plain — and actual and untenable — conflict” with her investigation into potential election fraud by state Sen. Burt Jones , who is running to be the state’s lieutenant governor.
The Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, which supports local prosecutors in the state, will now select a different district attorney’s office to oversee Jones’s role in the broader election investigation. During a public hearing on Thursday, McBurney called the decision to hold a fundraiser for a candidate while investigating their rival “problematic” and said the optics of the situation were “horrific” for the case and threatened to undermine public trust in the broader investigation into potential election fraud.