Mark Meadows Asks Supreme Court to Move The Georgia Case to A Federal Court

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Attorney’s for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows are asking the Supreme Court to move the Georgia election racketeering case to a federal court.

Meadows along with former President Donald Trump and others have been charged for racketeering for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Recently, a ruling by the Supreme Court granted the former president some immunity in his federal election subversion case .

Meadow’s lawyers claimed that the Georgia case frames “the case as about ‘federal meddling in matters of state authority,” according to a report from The Hill .

“It is hard to imagine a case in which the need for a federal forum is more pressing than one that requires resolving novel questions about the duties and powers of one of the most important federal offices in the Nation,” his attorneys wrote in a petition.

Last December a three-judge panel from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied his request to move the case to a federal court.  The judge ruled that Meadows could not leverage the statute because he was not acting in his official role at the time.

Meadows claims he was acting in his official role as a chief of staff when the alleged crimes took place. Four of the other co-defendants in the case have filed similar motions to have the charges moved.

Per The Hill :

In addition to Meadows, four of Trump’s other co-defendants have mounted similar efforts to move their charges, but those are proceeding on a slower time table and have not yet reached the Supreme Court.

The Georgia case is virtually halted as a state appeals court prepares to hear arguments in December over Trump’s efforts to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought the case against the former president.

Earlier this month, Judge Aileen Cannon she dismissed the classified documents case against Trump, ruling that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.