ATLANTA (AP) — The head of a nonpartisan agency tasked with finding a prosecutor to take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others is asking for more time after a judge set a two-week deadline for that appointment to be made.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who’s overseeing the case, wrote in an order Friday that if the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council doesn’t appoint a new prosecutor or request a “particularized extension” within 14 days, he would dismiss it. The fate of the case has been in limbo since Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from continuing the prosecution over an “appearance of impropriety” caused by a romantic relationship she had with the lead prosecutor.
Pete Skandalakis, executive dire