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Is this over or can the state still proceed?

There's more to it than that.

1. This was not a case of two prosecutors who happened to also be lovers. Their personal lives are their own business. They could post videos on Onlyfans for all that it matters. But these were lovers who were also using state and federal funds, to pay for travel expenses, hotel rooms, etc. in order to cover up the affair, essentially benefitting personally and financially from Trump's prosecution. Some theories going around are saying she intentionally made the entire case needlessly complex by bringing in so many co-defendants in order to increase the budget, and by extension increase their personal financial benefit. Given the horrendous testimony given by Wade during that hearing and the evidence that's out there, this theory isn't without merit.

2. You are correct that she was right to bring the case. That in and of itself is not the issue. It was that she brought the case while trying to see how much she could enrich herself and her lover in the process. She ended up tainting the entire tree and now as a result all of the fruit is poisoned. The case itself was rock-solid. The problem is that she covered it in so much shit that she ruined the whole thing.

3. It happened in GA, so GA is the only state where it would make sense. And her own actions leave open the chance that she intentionally dragged her feet in order to increase her own personal gain. She was not constrained by Merrick Garland and the DOJ; she could have brought this case a fuck of a lot sooner and kept it simple by keeping it to Trump and only the most important cronies, instead of indicting every coffee boy Trump ever shook hands with.

4. "Should have known better" is the understatement of the year. Her actions through the entire thing ranged from incompetence to negligence to outright corruption. And what makes her particularly stupid in this case is that she was handed a slam dunk case that a first year intern could have handled that would have literally made her career. All she had to do was literally the bare fucking minimum: Keep her hands clean and put on a competent prosecution, and she literally would have been able to dictate the rest of her own career. But instead, she decided to try to shave a little extra off the top for herself and ended up tanking the case, both of their careers, and trust in the entire system in the process. She should be disbarred and criminally charged.

It's taking "Fucked around and found out" to both literal and extreme levels.

One concede counselor, on one stipulation that point 3 be moved to point 1

As someone who watches more law n order than he should