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Fulton County, Ga., DA Fani Willis must come clean about an alleged office romance, write Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut. Otherwise, the prosecution of Donald Trump for alleged election interference could be delayed by more than a year — "or even railroaded entirely." |
Willis is alleged to have had a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, one of the three prosecutors she hired to carry out the prosecution of Trump. The alleged relationship raises legal and ethical issues because it can "undermine the public perception that justice is being done," the authors write. Willis will soon have to explain to a judge why she should not be disqualified from handling that case. "Willis need not resign," write Sarat, a law professor, and Aftergut, a former federal prosecutor. "But she should immediately 'unhire' the person whose hiring has become the source of the problem." And "[s]he should repay any financial benefits she has received indirectly, if she did. And she should do it now, if she hasn't already." "Otherwise, the story has the kind of legs that can turn into a long-running nightmare." The authors believe there is a "mountain of evidence" against Trump and his coconspirators. So, by having "Wade step down now and taking any other needed remedial action, Willis would ensure that that truth is front and center on her own day in court." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Tuesday, Jan. 30. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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Op-eds exploring key issues affecting the U.S. and world: |
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By Martin Redish , professor of law and public policy at Northwestern University |
The 14th Amendment's ban on insurrectionist office holders, like its guarantees of equal protection and due process, is designed to protect us against tyranny imposed by a majority. It would undermine the foundations of our constitutional system to place that provision's enforcement at the mercy of majoritarian will. |
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By J.T. Young, former Treasury Department official |
Americans are not just saying, as they did to Jimmy Carter in 1980, that they are not better off than were four years ago. They are saying they also don't expect to be better off four years from now if Biden is reelected. |
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By Douglas Schoen, political consultant |
By trying to out-flank Trump from the right and go after the same voters as Trump, instead of presenting himself as a more electable conservative who could win a general election, DeSantis alienated moderate Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in pursuit of voters who were never going to abandon Trump en masse. |
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By Paul A. London, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute |
When the media persuades the public that inflation is all about the Fed, it supports the virtue of austerity while absolving powerful private sector players of responsibility for inflation and other economic ills. |
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