Georgia prosecutors urge Supreme Court to keep Mark Meadows’ election subversion case in state court
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State prosecutors in Georgia who are pursuing election subversion charges against former President Donald Trump urged the US Supreme Court on Thursday to allow their case against his former chief of staff Mark Meadows to continue in state court.
State prosecutors in Georgia who are pursuing election subversion charges against former President Donald Trump urged the US Supreme Court on Thursday to allow their case against his former chief of staff Mark Meadows to continue in state court. Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman who served as White House chief of staff late in Trump’s term, was indicted last year in Fulton County on racketeering and other charges tied to phone calls and meetings in which Trump leaned on state officials to change the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia. Meadows has pleaded not guilty in the Georgia case. Relying on a Reconstruction-era law intended to shield federal officials from state prosecutions, Meadows says his case should be moved to federal court, where he would argue he should be immune from prosecution. The case so far has turned on whether the steps he carried out for Trump were made in his official capacity as White House chief of staff or as a private individual. Meadows “repeatedly admitted to engaging in activities on behalf of the Trump campaign” that were not official actions, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Supreme Court in Thursday’s brief. While Meadows’ case raises concerns about “unscrupulous prosecutors” pursuing unfounded prosecutions against former federal officials, Willis argued that possibility “remains entirely ‘hypothetical.’” Meadows “assumes that the scenario is inevitable and sure to be widespread, but his references to the overheated words of opinion editorials, cannot suffice to demonstrate that a new era of ubiquitous prosecution of former federal officials is at hand,” Willis argued.
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