Wade resigned from the Georgia Trump case

Nathan Wade resigned today from his post as special prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump. The move came after an Atlanta judge told Fani Willis, Wade’s boss and former romantic partner, that she and her office could keep the case only if Wade stepped down.

In a pivotal ruling, Judge Scott McAfee said that the romance between Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, and Wade, the lawyer she hired to manage the case, created an “appearance of impropriety,” but he said there was insufficient proof of a conflict of interest and he declined to disqualify her.

With delays mounting, the case against Trump and 14 co-defendants, which is related to efforts to undo Trump’s election loss in Georgia in 2020, is unlikely to come to trial before the November election. Willis emerges from weeks of embarrassing hearings and headlines with a bruised reputation that could color the views of a future jury, making convictions more difficult.

Another Trump trial: A New York judge delayed Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan until at least mid-April, postponing the only one of his four criminal cases that appeared set to begin.