Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will not have to immediately answer questions under oath in the divorce proceeding of a special prosecutor she hired to help lead the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump.

In a short-term win for Willis, a judge ruled that she does not have to sit for a deposition that had been scheduled for Tuesday. But the judge postponed a decision on whether Willis will have to testify eventually.

Willis has charged Trump and numerous co-defendants with a racketeering conspiracy to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia in the 2020 election. A lawyer for co-defendant Mike Roman claimed earlier this month in court that Willis was having an affair with Nathan Wade, an outside lawyer she hired to help run the prosecution as a contract attorney.........

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