Georgia's Judge McAfee says he will soon rule whether DA Fani Willis is disqualified in Trump case

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Thursday that his decision whether or not to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election case will be released this week.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testifies during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer-Pool/Getty Images)

"I made a promise to everybody. These kind of orders take time to write. I need to say exactly what I want to, and I plan to stick to the timeline I gave everyone," McAfee told reporter Mark Winne with local outlet WSB-TV 2 Atlanta.

"So this week?" the reporter asked McAfee.

"Should be out tomorrow," McAfee replied, according to WSB-TV 2 Atlanta.

McAfee is presiding over allegations brought by a handful of co-defendants that Willis hired special counsel Nathan Wade when they were secretly romantic lovers and financially benefited from his hiring.

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Former President Trump arrives during a "Get Out The Vote" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

McAfee already stated in an order Wednesday that the state failed to allege sufficient detail for six counts of "solicitation of violation of oath by public officer." 

"The Court’s concern is less that the State has failed to allege sufficient conduct of the Defendants – in fact it has alleged an abundance. However, the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is, in the undersigned opinion, fatal," McAfee wrote. 

"As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited," the judge continued. 

Fox News Digital's Claudia Kelly-Bazan contributed to this report.

Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com

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