Georgia appeals court says it will consider Trump’s effort to disqualify Fani Willis from his criminal case – live | US elections 2024

In response to Joe Biden’s visit to Wisconsin later today, the state’s governor Tony Evers tweeted:

“Today, I am jazzed to be joining @POTUS to celebrate Microsoft’s $3.3 billion investment in southeastern Wisconsin.

This expansion will create jobs, including 2,300 union construction jobs, and open the door to countless opportunities for Wisconsin.”

Elise Stefanik, New York Republican representative and staunch Donald Trump ally, responded to the latest decision of Georgia state’s appellate court, tweeting:

BREAKING: Another one of the Democrats’ illegal sham cases is CRUMBLING. President Trump will have his appeal HEARD in Georgia! The Far Left Democrats’ only strategy for the 2024 election has been blatant lawfare and election interference but that plan is failing.

Stefanik, who is widely considered to be a potential running mate for Trump, has thrown her support behind the former president on numerous occasions. In addition to echoing Trump’s descriptions of January 6 prisoners as “hostages”, Stefanik has also filed ethics complaints against two judges overseeing cases against Trump or his allies.

Here is the full text from the notice by the Georgia court of appeals on considering Donald Trump’s disqualification request of Fani Willis:

Upon consideration of the application for interlocutory appeal, it is ordered that it be hereby granted. The appellant may file a notice of appeal within 10 days of the date by this order. The clerk of superior court is directed to include a copy of this order in the record transmitted to the court of appeals.

The appeals court’s latest notice comes after Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the election interference case involving Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants, ruled in March that Willis should not be disqualified from prosecuting the defendants.

The defendants are accusing Willis of misconduct and having a conflict of interest in the case – specifically alleged financial gain – due to her romantic relationship with her then deputy Nathan Wade.

In March, Wade submitted his resignation request to Willis, in turn allowing Willis to continue on as lead prosecutor in the case.

Georgia’s appeals court grants Donald Trump’s request to consider Fani Willis’s disqualification

With Joe Biden’s upcoming visit, it is important to note that Donald Trump once touted the Foxconn location at Racine, Wisconsin, as the “eighth wonder of the world”.

In 2018, Trump spoke at a ceremonial groundbreaker for the factory which never happened, saying: “As Foxconn has discovered, there is no better place to build, hire and grow than right here in the United States.”

However, in 2021, Foxconn largely abandoned the promised $10bn factory. In an updated deal with Wisconsin reported by Reuters at the time, Foxconn said it was going to reduce its planned investments to $672m and had planned on reducing the jobs from 13,000 to 1,454.

Here are some more details on Joe Biden’s upcoming announcement in Racine, Wisconsin, later today:

The AI datacenter is set to construct 2,300 union construction jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs.

Microsoft also plans to provide “skilled opportunities for thousands more Wisconsinites in the digital economy”, the White House said.

Specifically, the tech giant will partner with Gateway Technical College to develop a datacenter academy that trains 1,000 Wisconsinites for datacenter and Stem roles by 2030, and will employ up to 2,000 people in permanent roles at its Racine facility, the White House added.

In a statement released ahead of Joe Biden’s visit to Wisconsin later today, the White House took a jab at Donald Trump’s former administration and said:

Six years ago, the prior administration touted a $10 billion investment by Foxconn that never materialized – now Microsoft will build a new AI datacenter on the same land, powering industries of the future in Wisconsin.

Today, president Biden will travel to Racine, Wisconsin – the same location as the failed Foxconn investment that the prior administration visited six years ago – to showcase a community at the heart of his commitment to invest in places that have been historically overlooked or failed by the last administration’s policies.”

Biden to announce $3.3bn AI center in Wisconsin