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economist. Hey there from CNN. I'm Krista Bow with the five things you need to know for Thursday,

December 19th. The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled today that Fannie Willis, the Georgia prosecutor leading

the criminal election interference case against Trump in that state, is now disqualified

from prosecuting the president-elect.

This case was put on pause, and a new special prosecutor would need to be appointed for it

to continue, meaning this

ruling makes the case dead in the water.

CNN's Caitlin Polantz has more details.

The Georgia Court of Appeals is saying that it's a significant appearance of impropriety

caused by the conduct of a public prosecutor.

That is Willis, how she behaved, how she was speaking about the case,

about Trump, publicly, about how she was having a relationship with the top prosecutor

that was concealed in this, a man named Nathan Wade. All of that, previously the trial level

judge had looked at and said, Fannie Willis can stay on this case. We're not dismissing the indictment.

But the Court of Appeals is now taking another look and saying, no, the trial judge was wrong.

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