The GOP hopes to mount a challenge to Willis in 2024, based not on just political grievance but on her office's performance, they said.
ousted her former boss—longtime Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard—by more than 40 points in a runoff election to become Atlanta's top prosecutor three years ago, the result was stunning but at the same time somewhat expected.
But his later years were troubled, marred by allegations of sexual improprieties, poor management of his office and, later, claims that he used city funds to enrich himself. When the time came, the choice for voters was clear: It was time for change. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis holds a press conference in the Fulton County Government Center after a grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump and 18 others on August 14, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia.Justice Michael Boggs told Georgia lawmakers that the state's court system was being plagued by a COVID-era backlog in its courts that left Fulton County with some 14,000 unindicted felony cases and 4,000 indicted felony cases that had yet to go to trial.
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