Fanny Willis update's judge recuses himself from Key decision fton County district attorney Fanny Willis received an update in her attempt to block subpoenas from a republican-led probe into her relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade after Judge Scott McAfee recused himself from her effort Fannie Willis a Democrat charged former president Donald Trump for allegedly seeking to interfere with the election results in Georgia a swing state that narrowly backed President Joe Biden in 2020 her case focused on Trump's call to Secretary of State Brad raffensberger in which Trump asked him to find enough votes to tilt the 2020 election in his favor as well as an alleged plot to submit a false slate of prot trump electors to the Electoral College Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges however the case was ended after a defense attorney representing one of Trump's co-defendants accused her of having a relationship with Wade who she hired to lead the prosecution defense attorneys alleged the pair benefited from taxpayers money arguing she should be disqualified from the case fonnie Willis has admitted to having the relationship with Wade but said their relationship began only after he was already hired denying allegations of wrongdoing maffy in March ruled that Willis only needed to remove Wade from the case allowing her to stay on on Tuesday McAfee declined to rule on Willis's efforts to block the subpoenas requested by a Georgia State Senate committee investigating her relationship with Wade according to legal documents first reported by Atlanta based news station he raised concerns about whether his ruling on her efforts would be a conflict of interest as he is also overseeing the election interference case the court concludes that its impartiality might be reasonably questioned in this matter as the underlying petition may require the undersigned to consider factual legal conclusions already issued in indictment number 23 c99x the effort will now be randomly assigned to another judge two other judges also recused themselves from the effort the subpoenas are compelling Willis to hand over documents related to The Case of the former president and her relationship with Wade she filed a motion to quash the subpoenas on September 4th they were issued by the Senate special committee on investigations the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported the committee is led by Republicans who hold majorities in Georgia's state legislative bodies the legislature set up the special committee to thoroughly investigate the allegations of misconduct by the district attorney for Fulton County F Willis related to alleged potential conflicts of interest and misuse of public funds Fanny Willis has maintained that she has not committed any wrongdoing and has described the investigation into her as unlawful her case against Trump has faced delays as a result of Court proceedings into her relationship with Wade sparking criticism from some legal analysts