Overview

• The court voted 4-3 to deny review of Willis’s bid to return to the case, with one justice disqualified and another not participating.
• The disqualification rests on the appeals court’s finding that Willis’s romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created a disqualifying appearance of impropriety.
• Justice Andrew Pinson wrote that further review was unwarranted, while Justice Carla Wong McMillian dissented to say high-court guidance would be useful.
• The Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, led by executive director Peter Skandalakis, will appoint a replacement, and Willis says her office will transfer case files and evidence.
• A new prosecutor could continue, narrow, or dismiss the prosecution, which still charges 14 remaining defendants after four guilty pleas, though pursuing the president while in office is viewed as unlikely.