“It’s a terrible look,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani said of Willis’ alleged “clandestine” romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

“You are prosecuting probably the most politicized trial in American history. And to do something foolish like this, you are a public servant you need to make sure that people have faith in our criminal justice system,” Rahmani said. …

“It’s incredibly foolish, it’s potentially unethical and maybe even criminal,” Rahmani said. “If I were her, I would say ‘I’m walking myself off from the case. Wade is no longer handling the case. The career prosecutors from my office will continue to handle it and I won’t have anything to do with it,’” the lawyer said.

Still, Rahmani said that the bid by Trump co-defendant Michael Roman to get the criminal charges against him tossed on conflict-of-interest grounds based on the alleged affair isn’t likely to succeed since it wouldn’t change “the merit of the case.”

[These are two separate but related issues. If Judge McAfee finds this to be an unethical or potentially criminal arrangement, he’ll order them both off the case and could refer the matter to the state bar. Roman’s attorney will argue that the RICO case itself is a racket designed to deliver public funds to Willis and Wade for their personal benefit, which may be a stretch, as Rahmani says, but isn’t that wild of an argument either. McAfee could dismiss the indictment without prejudice and assign it to a new jurisdiction to see if another DA would or could get a new indictment. That’s what Willis hopes to avoid by refusing to recuse. — Ed]