A Georgia appeals court has paused the 2020 election-interference case against President Donald Trump indefinitely, until a panel of judges determines whether or not Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can prosecute it.

Last month, a Georgia state court agreed to consider an appeal from Trump’s defense that asked judges to revisit Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee’s refusal to disqualify Willis from the case. Willis had an “improper” romantic relationship with the case’s then-special prosecutor Nathan Wade, a conflict of interest Trump’s defense claims should have disqualified her from prosecuting Trump’s case.

The lower appeals court is expected to rule on Willis’s disqualification by mid-March 2025, making it unlikely that Trump’s trial will commence before November’s presidential election.