Further complicating matters is the fact that McAfee once worked in the Fulton County DA’s office and was supervised by none other than Fani Willis, according to a report in the New York Times. This presumably explains his weirdly passive response to her disruptive courtroom antics during her February 15 testimony. He allowed her to ignore questions, accuse defense attorneys of lying and imply that they represented a threat to democracy. McAfee’s supine attitude doesn’t bode well for disqualification. Nor do the questions he asked defense attorneys during closing arguments. ...

This testy exchange was with defense attorney Harry MacDougald noted in the first paragraph above. He not only cited six examples of “actual conflicts of interest” involving Fani Willis in his closing argument on Friday, he also provided the best metaphorical description of the ethical burden prosecutors bear: “The administration of the law and especially that of the criminal law should, like Caesar’s wife, be above suspicion and should be free from all temptation, bias or prejudice so far as it is possible for our courts to accomplish it. Its blindingly obvious that Fani Willis has failed the “Caesar’s wife” standard. The only real question left is whether Judge Scott McAfee will do the right thing.