Morning Wire - Fani Willis Ruling & Laken Riley Act | Afternoon Update | 3.15.24

Episode Date: March 15, 2024

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This episode is brought to you by Adele Natural Cosmetics. Visit adele natural cosmetics.com and use code wire for 25% off your first order. That's ADEL Natural Cosmetics.com with code wire. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Friday, March 15th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. Judge Scott McAfee has ruled that either Fulton County DA Fawney Willis or special counsel Nathan Wade must leave the 2020 Georgia election case against former President Trump for the prosecution to continue.

Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestige Giacomo. Judge McAfee said he found an appearance of impropriety, but said the defendants had failed to meet their burden of proving a conflict of interest based on the Willis Wade affair. His decision comes after Willis was accused by a Trump co-defendant of being romantically linked to Wade when she hired him for the case and then finding out of the case. and then financially benefiting from that relationship. A witness testified last month that the affair began before the case started, but Willis and Wade have claimed that the relationship developed after Wade was hired.

Some legal analysts have since weighed in on the McAfee ruling. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley called it, quote, disjointed. Here he is on Fox News. It's like, you know, finding two people in a bank vault and taking one off to jail. The appearance problem that the judge identified with regard to Wade was directly related to his relationship with Willis. They both testified in the same way. They were the two parts of this relationship.

And yet only one of them was disqualified. And so that's going to lead to these questions. I mean, well, why should Willis escape that same penalty? The opinion leaves this feeling like the court went and shocked the wounded. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Colony Ridge, a sprawling Texas development that's become a magnet for illegal immigrants. Daily Wire reporter Spencer Lindquist, who investigated the development, has more. Paxton announced his lawsuit Thursday, alleging that Colony Ridge engages in

deceptive trade practices and fraudulent real estate transactions. The suit also argues that Colony Ridge uses predatory lending practices to churn land purchasers through a foreclosure mill, all while targeting foreign-born customers who do not speak English. Paxson previously asserted that the development is attracting and enabling a legal immigrant settlement in Texas. In addition of the Texas lawsuit, the development is now facing a slew of legal problems, including a joint lawsuit from the Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as well as multiple ongoing federal investigations. New York Attorney General Alvin Bragg says he's not opposed to delaying Donald Trump's New York hush money trial. The trial was set to begin March 25th.

Trump's legal team asked for a 90-day delay after Bragg's office delivered 73,000 pages of discovery documents since March 4th. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business documents as related to a payment to Stormy Daniels back in 2016. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges. In a separate case, Judge Eileen Cannon rejected one of Trump's motions to dismiss his classified documents case. Trump attended a day-long argument in Florida, as did special counsel Jack Smith. Several U.S. senators introduced the Lake and Riley Act, which would detain illegal immigrants who have committed a crime until they can be removed from the U.S. by ICE so they cannot commit any more crimes. North Carolina Senator Ted Budd urged his colleagues to pass the act, saying that this law could have prevented Lake and Riley's murder. I'm deeply disturbed in my Democrat colleagues for objecting to a bill that had it been in place, Lake and Riley's life would have been spared.

The Democrat Party's commitment to open borders is causing otherwise preventable tragedies to occur again and again and again. Democrats blocked the bill from being voted on on Thursday. Riley Gaines and more than a dozen other collegiate athletes have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA for allowing men to compete in women's sports. The lawsuit emphasizes the case of Leah Thomas, the U-Penn swimmer who won the NCAA championship in 2022, but had competed as a man as recently as 20, The federal lawsuit demands all males be banned from female sports and the removal of any awards or titles won by male athletes in female sports. The NCAA continues to allow men to compete in women's sports. Riley Gaines explains her position. This lawsuit, it is about women standing together and demanding that the NCAA change its roles that hurt women. The most important part of the lawsuit is fair competition and safety and women's sports.

We want to see Title IX in its original intent. to be implemented and enforced by the NCAA. This episode is brought you by PolicyGenius. Head to PolicyGenius.com or click the link in the description to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you could save. That's PolicyGenius.com. Space X's third starship test flight was deemed a success. The unmanned rocket completed most of its mission before it broke up upon re-entry. Musk celebrated on X calling Starship the largest flying object ever.

It weighs in at 5,000 times. The controversy surrounding Kate Middleton's health status grows as yet another photo meant to reassure the public has been flagged by online sleuths as potentially manipulated. The photo mystery prompted the Associated Press to print a story this week about how the publication spots digital manipulation and photographs. Here's Alyssa Farah Griffin on the view addressing the princess's perplexing absence from public view. We know the treatment around Diana. We know what Megan Markle and Prince Harry Wedder. Yep. And now you have a princess, a queen and waiting that hasn't been seen, and the stories just don't pan out. She could resolve this, the palace could, in two minutes by putting her direct to camera. Kate's last confirmed public appearance was Christmas Day.

Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.