The Georgia agency that recently took over the 2020 election interference criminal case against President Trump and his allies won an extension Thursday to name a prosecutor to oversee the case. 

Judge Scott McAfee gave the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council (PAC) until Nov. 14 to provide a name, a delay from his original two-week deadline but not as far as PAC wanted. 

The agency took over after Georgia’s courts disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) from bringing Trump to trial after her romantic relationship with a prosecutor she hired to work on the case came to light.

PAC, which is tasked with supporting prosecutors and law enforcement across Georgia, is responsible for finding a substitute when a district attorney’s office has a conflict of interest. 

“Due to the complexity of this case and the vast personnel and resources required to handle a case of this nature, it will require time to seek a District Attorney Pro Tempore willing to take on this prosecution,” Peter Skandalakis, the agency’s executive director, wrote to McAfee in asking for the extension. 

Skandalakis asked to delay the deadline until 90 days after PAC receives the case file, which would slow the schedule to early next year. McAfee’s extension is more modest, providing about a month’s extra time. 

It’s not the first time PAC has wanted to move slowly. After Willis was disqualified from attempting to charge Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R) in her investigation, PAC took 21 months before ultimately naming Skandalakis himself to lead the probe. He later declined to bring charges. 

Two years ago, Willis indicted Trump and more than a dozen of his allies on racketeering charges over allegations they entered a months-long conspiracy to unlawfully subvert former President Biden’s 2020 election victory in Georgia. He pleaded not guilty.

It became one of four criminal prosecutions Trump faced as he campaigned to return to the White House.  

A New York jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records that stem from a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels, but Trump’s federal indictments that accused him of mishandling classified documents and unlawfully subverting Biden’s 2020 victory were dismissed after Trump won a second term.