Pete Skandalakis, who took over the case after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified, said the case was “without precedent.”
Pete Skandalakis, who took over the case after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified, said the case was “without precedent.”
Am I reading this wrong? The article seems to indicate that he’s just a civil servant prosecutor? Is there any indication of bias?
This part. The elected republican bit. I’d love to trust that he could be bipartisan but having only received the case on the 17th and then dismissed it is suspect as fuck
I don’t consider mere membership in a political party as very strong evidence of bias. There are only two viable political parties in America and “membership” is nothing more than ticking a box on a form. Even I’m technically a Republican despite being a “woke lefty” because I just wanted to vote against Trump in the 2024 primary election and because it causes the Republican Party to waste money mailing me “get out the vote” campaign material which I immediately throw in the recycle bin.
Civil servants are allowed to have political leanings. This doesn’t make them automatically biased. That is Donald Trump-level reasoning. Just like he was wrong to attack the New York prosecutor who happens to be a Democrat, I’m not going to attack this guy just because he happens to be a Republican.
Then you need to start paying attention.
I am deeply offended by that. I worked in a municipal government for several years and I can assure you that there are plenty of Republican civil servants who take their jobs just as seriously and act with as much impartiality as their Democratic counterparts.
Like I said, to dismiss someone as “biased” only because they have the opposite political orientation is Trump-level reasoning.
If that party membership were the “only” evidence of bias, I would agree with you. Heck I’ve considered signing up for GOPer mail, just to waste their funds, too. With this dismissal, it’s clear that there are at least two points of evidence, and they indeed make a direct line which leads to bias. I suspect if one were to look closer a 3rd and 4th linear points towards bias would arise. Prove me wrong.
The Republican party has not been a traditional political party in quite awhile now, Trumpism has fully transformed it into a dangerous cult. Continued affiliation with the Republican party in the current political context is plenty of evidence to know someone is deeply biased and poses a threat the rule of the law.
You’re free to do your own trump level reason in this case. No one in good conscious can still support the republican party with all the shit going on.
Not officially. At least in Illinois, civil servants can get in deep shit with the Ethics Act if they start advocating for a political party in their capacity as a civil servant.