Judge Scott McAfee mentioned his long-awaited ruling on the hassle to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “should” come out Friday.

“I made a promise to everybody. These kind of orders take time to write. I need to make sure I say exactly what I want to, and I plan to stick to the timeline I gave everyone,” McAfee mentioned, based on ABC affiliate WSB who spoke to him Thursday night.

“Should be out tomorrow,” he continued.

Attorneys for a number of defendants have been pushing for the disqualification of Willis from the Georgia election interference case towards former President Donald Trump and 18 others.

McAfee has been weighing motions to disqualify Willis, primarily over accusations from Ashley Merchant’s shopper, Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, that Willis benefited financially from a “personal, romantic relationship” with Nathan Wade, who she employed for the case, by Wade’s “paying for vacations across the world with money he is being paid by the Fulton County taxpayers and authorized solely by Willis.”

Friday’s ruling comes as McAfee is within the midst of an election for a full four-year time period on the bench. He has denied that politics would play a component in his ruling.

“The message I want to convey is no ruling of mine is ever going to be based on politics,” McAfee mentioned. “I’m going to be following the law as best I understand it.”

Willis has pushed again on any allegations of misconduct. In a submitting this week, she urged the judge to reject the movement to disqualify her, saying that with a purpose to disqualify an elected district lawyer, “an actual conflict of interest must be proven” — which she says the defendants haven’t executed.

On Thursday night time, a reporter requested the judge how he balances campaigning to maintain his seat whereas presiding over “one of the most watched cases in America.”

“So I just focus on the job I’m doing. I’m incredibly grateful for the last year I’ve been able to do this. I took this job not because I wanted to score partisan political points. I didn’t go looking for the spotlight. I did it because I love the law and giving people their day in court and being efficient about it,” he mentioned.

Trump and 18 others pleaded not responsible final August to all fees in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election within the state of Georgia. Defendants Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Scott Hall subsequently took plea offers in change for agreeing to testify towards different defendants.