The appeals court upheld the disqualification of Georgia election fraud investigator Fani Willis but left the indictment against her standing.

• The Fani Willis-led prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and other defendants for criminal election interference was disqualified by the Georgia appeals court.
• The appeals court upheld the indictment against the defendants, who are charged with crimes related to their attempts to overturn Trump's loss in Georgia's 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

On Thursday, the Georgia appeals court disqualified Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, from overseeing the criminal election interference prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and other defendants.

The Court of Appeals upheld the indictment against the defendants, who are charged with crimes related to their attempts to overturn Trump's loss in Georgia's 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

The ruling reverses the decision of a Fulton County trial court judge who permitted Willis to continue working on the case, despite Trump's lawyers' claims that she should be disqualified because of her romantic relationship with the top prosecutor she had appointed.

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