Lisa Rubin on Fani Willis Disqualification Case: ‘Never Met the Threshold’

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RUBIN: “Yeah, the whole thing, I don’t know why it was necessary. We talked earlier about the legal standard here. I think Andrew and I are in agreement, that this never met the threshold, even if all the facts were established. Judge McAfee, however, felt that the appearance of impropriety in and of itself justified having a hearing. That was how he justified it to himself. And now that he opened that Pandora’s box, here we are. I agree with Andrew that all the questions that he’s asked so far really favor the sate. One other that he asked, Katy, that I found really interesting is, we’re far outside the core of these cases. So, if the proposition is that a representative of the state says something untruthful, do I as the court have to deal with that, or shouldn’t I refer that to the state bar down the street?”