The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ request to move his Georgia election case to federal court.
For months, Meadows sought to move his election interference case out of Fulton County, Georgia.
The Guardian has the latest:
A US appeals court has ruled that the election interference case against the former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must stay in state court in Georgia and not move to federal court as he requested.
Meadows had attempted to transfer his 2020 election interference case in the state to federal court, but the court had expressed doubt in his argument that he was acting as a federal official in trying to reverse Donald Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden.
Meadows has been charged with violating the Georgia racketeering statute, alongside Trump and other co-defendants by the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, over their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Back in September, a Politico report analyzing court filings in The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al. predicted that Meadows may flip on his ex-boss, former President Donald Trump, to save himself from being convicted.
The report cited courtroom transcripts where Meadows’ attorneys suggested that Trump was the primary instigator of the post-election effort in Georgia.
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