We had to check on this because it sounded like it couldn't be true. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is allegedly sleeping with the special counsel she hired to prosecute Donald Trump, which should be enough to get her taken off the case. Now we're learning that the judge chosen to preside over Trump's trial in Georgia once worked under Willis.

Huh.

ABA Journal reports:

The state court judge appointed to preside in the Georgia racketeering case against former President Donald Trump once worked for Fani T. Willis, the current Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney who obtained the indictment.

Judge Scott F. McAfee, 34, is “brand-new on the bench,” according to Law360. He became a judge in February after his December 2022 appointment to fill a vacancy by Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. McAffee is the newest judge on the 19-member Fulton County superior court.

The Washington Post, the New York Times, Reuters and Axios also have stories.

So Willis hired her boyfriend, who has no experience with RICO cases, to be a special prosecutor, and now we have a "brand-new on the bench" judge who used to work for Willis. 

The case should be dropped, or at least given a change of venue. This judge was subservient to Willis for years. Is he going to let her run the courtroom?