'Not a chance’: Experts weigh likelihood of Trump's Georgia case going to trial before 2024 election

With the Georgia Appeals Court determination to perceive former President Trump's bid to person District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the lawsuit against him, immoderate ineligible experts accidental determination is small to nary accidental the lawsuit volition spell to proceedings earlier the November predetermination arsenic Willis had hoped. 

On Wednesday, the appeals tribunal agreed to perceive arguments by lawyers for Trump and co-defendants successful the sweeping racketeering lawsuit related to the 2020 election. They reason Willis had an "improper" matter with a subordinate lawyer connected her squad and should beryllium disqualified. 

Judge Scott McAfee ruled successful March that Willlis' matter gave her squad an "appearance of impropriety" and said peculiar prosector Nathan Wade needed to beryllium removed oregon Willis should measurement down. Wade resigned soon pursuing that ruling. 

But Trump and his co-defendants appealed that decision, which volition present spell earlier the Court of Appeals. John Malcolm, a erstwhile adjunct U.S. Attorney successful Atlanta, said there's "not a chance" Trump's Georgia predetermination interference lawsuit volition spell to proceedings earlier November. 

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis during a proceeding successful the lawsuit of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump astatine the Fulton County Courthouse March 1, 2024, successful Atlanta. (Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)

"Although the likelihood of the Georgia lawsuit coming to proceedings rapidly were ne'er precise good, present that the Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to see the recusal issue, determination is not a accidental the Georgia lawsuit is going to spell to proceedings earlier the November election," Malcolm told Fox News Digital. 

"There are inactive tons of pending motions that Judge McAfee volition person to see erstwhile (or if) the lawsuit is returned to him for further proceedings," Malcolm noted. He added that the U.S. Supreme Court's pending determination successful the Trump immunity lawsuit whitethorn person an interaction connected immoderate of the charges that Willis’ bureau has brought against the erstwhile president.

Malcolm added that "by dramatically overcharging this lawsuit and by engaging successful an interoffice romance with a authoritative whom she appointed, Fani Willis has nary 1 but herself to blasted for the predicament she is in." 

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Judge Scott McAfee astatine the Fulton County Courthouse successful Atlanta Feb. 15. (Alyssa Pointer, Getty Images)

Georgia State University instrumentality prof Anthony Kreis told Fox News successful an interrogation that, according to the court's rules, the appeals tribunal has to perceive and determine a lawsuit wrong 2 terms. 

"Now that's a agelong play of time. We're fundamentally looking into aboriginal 2025 perchance if the tribunal puts it astatine the extremity of its docket," Kreis said. "The Court of Appeals is simply a beauteous engaged court. And so, you know, possibly they privation to instrumentality the [case] sooner, possibly they don't." 

Kreis explained that it's not guaranteed the appeals tribunal volition clasp oral arguments successful the lawsuit and could conscionable determine it based connected briefings by some parties.

The earliest the appeals tribunal could perceive the lawsuit is August of this year. 

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Former President Trump, a Republican statesmanlike candidate, speaks during a Buckeye Values PAC Rally successful Vandalia, Ohio, March 16, 2024.  (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)

John Shu, a law instrumentality adept who served successful some the George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations, observed that "the Court of Appeals process volition instrumentality weeks, and past whichever enactment loses the interlocutory entreaty apt volition record a certiorari petition to the Georgia Supreme Court, which, if they assistance it, astir apt would instrumentality the process good into November.

"This messiness decidedly is of DA Willis’ ain making," Shu added.

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Willis did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.