Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer in Atlanta asked a judge Friday for more time to review “salacious” allegations against two prosecutors leading the racketeering case against Trump, saying he may join an effort to disqualify them.

The matter came up during a hearing in the election interference case against Trump and 14 of his allies. The office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has yet to respond to a court filing that accused her of being romantically involved with the lead prosecutor she hired for the Trump case, Nathan Wade.

Wade has reaped more than $650,000 in legal fees since Willis hired him in November 2021. The filing said that Willis had been “profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers,” charging that she and Wade had taken vacations together with money he made working for her office.

The development has energized Republicans and raised questions about Willis’ judgment as she tries one of the highest-profile cases in the country. Friday, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a Trump ally and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, used the allegations as the basis for seeking more records from the district attorney’s office.

Willis has previously accused Jordan of trying “to obstruct a Georgia criminal proceeding and to advance outrageous partisan misrepresentations.”

As Wade looked on impassively in the courtroom, Trump’s lawyer, Steven Sadow, who appeared virtually, asked for an extension of the deadline to file pretrial motions, which had passed this month.

“This is the first motion in which there have been allegations of fact made which deal directly with our opposition counsel,” Sadow said. “Suffice it to say that they are salacious and scandalous in nature.”

He said he was “leery” of joining such a motion “without having a better understanding or substantiation of the allegations,” and asked for time to review the matter once Willis’ office responded. Neither she nor anyone from the office has responded to the allegations since they first came to light Jan. 8.

The presiding judge, Scott McAfee of Fulton County Superior Court, granted Sadow’s request. He said that early February was the soonest he would hold a hearing on the issue.

Sadow is not the only lawyer reviewing the matter. Craig Gillen, a lawyer for David Shafer, former head of the state Republican Party, said, “We’re going to do our own investigation and determine whether or not we’re going to adopt that motion or supplement that motion.”

Headlines about the allegations have overtaken news about the case itself. The allegations were laid out in a filing from Mike Roman, a former Trump campaign staff member who is among the defendants in the Georgia case. His filing did not offer proof of the relationship between the prosecutors, but it asserted that they have been seen “in a personal relationship capacity” around Atlanta and claimed that people close to both of them have confirmed it.

The filing also suggested that the relationship was the reason Willis had chosen Wade, who had never led a high-profile criminal case and had largely worked as a suburban defense lawyer and municipal judge.

The day after Wade started working for the district attorney’s office, he filed for divorce.

Lawyers for his wife, Joycelyn, issued a subpoena last week to Willis, seeking her testimony on Jan. 23 in the Wades’ divorce case. Willis’ office gave no indication Friday as to when it would submit a filing responding to the claims.

Legal experts generally believe that the accusations are unlikely to derail the case even if they are substantiated, because they don’t speak to its underlying facts. But they could create considerable distractions and problems for Willis, who is up for reelection this year. Republicans have already accused her of violating county and state laws and ethics rules.