A federal judge in Georgia has formally recused herself from a federal election records case after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sought her voluntary ouster from the legal proceeding. U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross signed the order June 15, but it became public on June 16. The DOJ had argued that Ross’s attendance at a political event in 2024 for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who prosecuted President Donald Trump for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election, created the appearance that the judge was biased against Trump. In December 2024, the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis from that state-level prosecution amid allegations of “an appearance of impropriety” related to her relationship with her former special counsel in the case, Nathan Wade....