Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is charged with two counts for his alleged role in an attempt to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
with the federal district court in Atlanta on Thursday that included the notices commanding Raffensperger and Frances Watson, former chief investigator of the Georgia secretary of state's Investigations Division, to testify at the hearing scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday.
The proceeding ordered by U.S. District Judge Steve Jones will focus on the attempt by Meadows, former President Donald Trump's last White House chief of staff, to move his criminal case from the Fulton County Superior Court to federal district court.charged in the state racketeering case brought by Willis over an alleged scheme to overturn Trump's electoral loss in Georgia.
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks to the press in Statuary Hall at the Capitol on Aug. 22, 2020.Meadows argued that his case should be heard in federal court because the conduct detailed in the indictment related to his work a White House employee, and his status as a federal officer protects him from being arrested and brought to trial in state court.
"Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President's behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President," Meadows' lawyers told the court last week."One would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do these sorts of things.
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