While I Was Watching “Dune Part Two”

Lawyers for the Trump codefendants in GA have zero evidence to support their claims, so they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Now, saying the speech DA Willis gave in a church is reason for her disqualification.

Please Judge Mcafee…end this charade and let’s move on!

— Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) March 1, 2024

(which is even better than part 1), closing arguments were heard in the DQ hearing (no, not Dairy Queen) for Fani Willis. Again, people with too much money to spend on lawyers, and no good sense how to spend it. There were a lot of lawyers on Twitter equally lacking in good sense.

This is really ugly. it's just 1) say again and again she lied about the affair; and then 2) ignore, or make up ridiculous claims, about why it could conceivably have prejudiced the defense.

just fiery rhetoric, eg it's a "fraud on the court." "systematic misconduct" etc

— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) March 1, 2024

I repeat: This Fani Willis travesty should never have gotten to this point and while many I respect say Judge McAfee is competent, he lost control of these proceedings long ago. No conflict of interest was ever established. Not close. This should have been over in an afternoon.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) March 1, 2024

In 99.9999% of cases, the Fani Willis issue would’ve been handled by the judge, in chambers, during a lunch break

Judge McAfee opened the door and let the clown car take over his courtroom

And the mainstream media fell for it — and keeps broadcasting it

Total travesty

— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) March 1, 2024

All of Judge McAfee’s questions in Fulton County disqualification hearing show skepticism

He just asked “what is limiting principle?”

Burden is high and defendants likely haven’t met it

Joining @cnn max on the break to discusshttps://t.co/Ipueyui43h

— Norm Eisen (norm.eisen on Threads) (@NormEisen) March 1, 2024

Judge McAffee giving leeway in these defense lawyers arguments to ramble & smear Fanni Willis & Nathan Wade - I doubt he is persuaded but frankly I would have cut them off long ago and told them to argue about evidence versus their leering opinions about other people's sexual &…

— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) March 1, 2024

You try two cases: one to the jury, one to the judge. You try the case to the judge in pretrial hearings. Trying a shit motion is never a good idea, and this was a shit motion. Lawyers were outraged that Fani Willis could behave in a manner that would subject her to these allegations. There were regularly broadcast and tweeted concerns about how she’d lost the case by her implied stupidity (rhymes with “cupidity”), and how it would inevitably taken away from her office to die a quiet death in another county. There were tremendous concerns about the appearance of impropriety and how it was clearly about to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

And then came the hearings, and the “star witness” decided, after all, that he couldn’t swear to it. Literally. So now, after three days, the judge never should have held this hearing because NOW we know there was no evidence, and how dare they all waste our time?

Huh.🤔 

The allegations never were serious. It was the equivalent of: “Teacher! Fani and Wade were making out during the pep rally!” But we couldn’t know that until the hearing. Until no evidence of a conflict of interest was ever presented, and the judge gave the moving parties every opportunity to do so. That’s what judges do. With the attention of the national press on this case, the worst thing McAfee could have done would be to hold an in camera hearing during lunch and chase the lawyers out of his chambers for wasting his time. Even I would find that suspicious.

As it is, the defendants who backed this motion took their best shot, and failed miserably. The Press, ignorant as lemmings, raced over the cliff chasing the story of adults having adult relationships; disappointed, I think, that they never got salacious details or grainy photos. Fani Willis went to court and kicked ass from here to Sunday, and her father won our sympathies. If this hearing did any good, it was to show the country Ms. Willis is a force to be reckoned with and knows what to go to court with (i.e., evidence and a cause of action/criminal charge), and any further claims the defendants make to the press should be ignored until they are made to the jury. Who will be in a much better position to decide what those claims mean than the chattering heads in cable TV and the empty heads on legal Twitter.

The movants never had a conflict of interest case. What they had was gossip, and in the end not even that. The courtroom is no place for gossip, and even worse a place to find out you don’t have any evidence. It was worth something, after all. We learned that we have good prosecutors from the DOJ to Manhattan to Fulton County, Georgia. And we learned Trump isn’t the only one who has lawyers whose mouths write checks their asses can’t cash. That cannot make those clients feel good about their futures.