Though most of the 2020 election hoopla is over with, President Donald Trump scored a major victory in the state of Georgia thanks to its Republican-controlled state Senate.
According to NTD News, the Georgia Senate just unanimously passed a bill that would allow defendants in criminal cases to recover their legal fees if the prosecuting attorney is disqualified "due to improper conduct."
That's exactly what happened in the state of Georgia with Fulton County DA Fani Willis' case against Trump and 18 co-defendants.
Trump and the co-defendants were indicted by Willis in 2023 on a dozen election-related charges, but Willis was later removed from the case after her relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade was uncovered in court
The bill, known as Senate Bill 244, which passed easily in the Georgia Senate, would allow everyone prosecuted in the case to request reimbursement for legal fees.
Willis was removed from the case last year after relentlessly pursuing Trump and the co-defendants.
NTD noted:
Last December, a state appeals court declined to dismiss the case itself but removed Willis and her office from it, citing a “significant appearance of impropriety” on the part of the prosecution. The decision overturned an earlier ruling by the presiding judge that would have allowed Willis to stay on the case as long as Wade resigned.
Willis had immediately moved to appeal the decision, but the Georgia Supreme Court has still not decided whether or not it will take up the case.
Georgia Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones II weighed in on the bill, explaining that it could have broader implications if passed.
"If you have that young person, possession of marijuana, whatever it may be, and the prosecutor has done something wrong, and that case is dismissed because the prosecutor did something wrong, they’re entitled to have their attorney’s fees back,” said Jones.
He added, "That’s actually something that we probably would have pushed many years ago."
Trump has argued from the beginning that the case was just another political witch hunt and after Willis was disqualified, he experienced some level of vindication.
Recouping his legal fees from the ordeal would be that much sweeter.
Only time will tell if the Georgia House and the governor signs off on the bill, but it would certainly have major implications across the state if that happens.
