Ex-DOJ Official's Bleak Forecast For Mark Meadows After 'Total Body Slam' Ruling
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An appeals court has rejected the former White House chief of staff's bid to move his case from Georgia.
A federal appeals court’s decision against Mark Meadows is “to put it mildly, a total body slam,” according to former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.
Monday’s ruling rejected a bid by Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, to move his Georgia election interference case to federal court, affirming a federal judge’s decision in September.
A transfer to federal court would have allowed Meadows to seek dismissal of the charges, and would have complicated the Georgia racketeering case against Trump and more than a dozen other defendants over efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Beat” on Monday, Katyal noted that the ruling from a three-judge panel on the of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was authored by the court’s chief judge, William Pryor, who is “extremely conservative.”
“And to basically summarize what this long opinion says, Chief Justice Pryor just basically said, look, if you’re the White House chief of staff, launching a coup is not in your job description,” Katyal said. “That’s the opinion, plain and simple.”
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