President Donald Trump issued pardons last Friday to several individuals accused of crimes tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including some named in Georgia's ongoing RICO indictment, which remains in limbo amid delays in appointing a new prosecutor.

Last year, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from prosecuting Mr. Trump in December, after an alleged relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor who was also serving on the case.

But the team assigned to find her replacement asked for more time to appoint a new lead prosecutor back in October.

Executive Director of the Prosecuting Attorney's Council, Pete Skandalakis, said in a written statement that the council "cannot intelligently answer questions of anyone requested to take the appointment or to do his own due diligence in finding a prosecutor who is not encumbered by a significant appearance of impropriety."

Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has ordered that a conflict prosecutor be appointed by Nov. 14 or he will dismiss the entire indictment for "want of prosecution," meaning the case would be terminated because the prosecutor "failed to actively pursue" it. 

The council has yet to give any indication that it has picked a new lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case.

However, in a statement released earlier this Monday, Skandalakis said: "My staff and I have been diligently working on this matter since the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the disqualification of the District Attorney's Office. We will continue to carry out our responsibilities without being influenced by matters outside the scope of our assigned task, with the goal of complying fully with Judge McAfee's order."

He also noted that Mr. Trump's pardons apply only to federal charges and do not affect state charges.