(the Morning Rant will be pushed to noon.)
McAfee was asked a few days ago if he would adjust his ruling based on the fact that a Jesse Jackson/Rainbow PUSH acolyte suddenly filed to run against him. (He had previously been unopposed.)
McAfee said no, he had already drafted his ruling. Megyn Kelly (well, her friend) pointed out that this meant that McAfee had decided to allow Fani Willis to stay on the case. Otherwise, he wouldn't attempt to defend his decision by saying he had already made the decision before he was pressured from the left and black identiarians.
Throughout this entire case, he has refused to allow in evidence of Fani Willis' and Nathan Wade's serial perjury. All so he could claim, as he does in this corrupt, cowardly ruling, that there is no actual conflict of interest, merely an appearance of conflict of interest.
And having claimed there is only the appearance of a conflict of interest, McAfee now rules that all that is required to cure the appearance of a conflict is to clean up the appearance: Either Fani Willis can step aside and take her whole office with her, and leave the case to be run (or dropped) by a state agency, or she can just fire Sweetdick.
This is a disgrace.
More specifically, Defendant Roman alleges that the District Attorney and SADA Wade traveled together on multiple vacations with Wade covering many of the associated expenses. (Roman Doc. 61 at 5-6). Defendant Roman later supplemented his motion with receipts from some of these travels. (Roman Doc. 70, Ex. B). The State responded with an affidavit, arguing that the District Attorney had not received any financial benefit through her relationship with Wade, and that their personal travel expenses were "roughly divided equally." (State's Opposition, Roman
Doc. 65, Ex. A).
As alleged, the claims presented a possible financial conflict of interest for the District Attorney.
"Possible." Don't worry, he'll soon say there is no conflict of interest.
More importantly, the defense motions and the State's response created a conflict in the evidence that could only be resolved through an evidentiary hearing, and one that could not simply be ignored without endangering a criminally accused's constitutional right to procedural due process. After receiving two and a half days of testimony, during which the Defendants were provided an opportunity to subpoena and introduce whatever relevant and material evidence they
could muster, the Court finds that the Defendants failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and recurring travels with her lead prosecutor.
You repeatedly blocked their attempts to introduce evidence into the record, and allowed Terrence Bradley to brazenly perjure himself to cover the conflict up.
The other alleged grounds for disqualification, including forensic misconduct, are also denied. However, the established record now highlights a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the
prosecution team - an appearance that must be removed through the State's selection of one of two options. The Defendants' motions are therefore granted in part.
I believe "Forensic misconduct" means misconduct in the handling of the case. This includes the duo's brazen serial perjuries. Having blocked all evidence that demonstrates their lies from entering the record, McAfee now says there's no evidence to support this motion.
Having blocked most of the evidence of perjury and an actual conflict of interest, McAfee pretends he just can't tell if Fani and Sweetdick are lying or not. Who can tell? There's evidence on both sides!
It's all a mystery that may never be resolved!
The prosecution of this case cannot proceed until the State selects one of two options. The District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office, and refer the prosecution to the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council for reassignment. See O.C.G.A. 15-18-5. Alternatively, SADA Wade can withdraw, allowing the District Attorney, the Defendants, and the public to move forward without his presence or remuneration distracting from and potentially compromising the merits of this case.
Fuck you. The Georgia GOP must make sure this motherfucker's career is over.
The Georgia state house may yet act to remove this corrupt dickriding partisan, though I doubt it.
Here is the basic dynamic of Current Year: The left makes outrageous, unprecedented, brazenly partisan assaults on the political process, and then the right pretends that all of this is just routine and business-as-usual because we are too cowardly to confront the fact that the left is engaged in civil war. We're so afraid that we'll appear "partisan" if we rebuke the left and call them out for the insurrectionists they are.