The New York Times reports:
Five defendants have already sought to move the state case to federal court, citing their ties to the federal government. The first one to file — Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff during the 2020 election — will make the argument for removal on Monday, in a hearing before a federal judge in Atlanta.
Federal officials charged with state crimes can move their cases to federal court if they can convince a judge that they are being charged for actions connected to their official duties, among other things. The indictment says that the election-reversal scheme lasted through September 2021.
Mr. Trump, by that point, had been out of federal office for months. “By showing the racketeering enterprise continued well beyond his time in office,” Anthony Michael Kreis, an assistant law professor at Georgia State University, said in a text message, “it undercuts any argument that Trump was acting in a governmental capacity to ensure the election was free, fair and accurate.”
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A federal judge in Atlanta today will hear arguments from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his racketeering charges to federal court from Fulton County. It could reveal an Easter egg in the indictment that could spoil his argument. https://t.co/gALa9b8jy0
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