Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows' request to move Georgia election subversion case to federal court
Source: CNN Politics
Updated 9:52 AM EST, Tue November 12, 2024
CNN — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Mark Meadows move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court, effectively barring the former chief of staff during Donald Trump’s first term from claiming immunity from those charges.
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, Georgia, 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 the state. Meadows has pleaded not guilty and Trump won election to a second term last week. Meadows wanted to have his case heard in federal – rather than state – court, where he would be able to raise immunity claims.
The Atlanta-based 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the Georgia prosecution against Meadows should continue in state court, concluding that former federal officials are not covered by that statute “removing” state cases against government officials to federal court. Importantly, Chief Judge William Pryor’s opinion also said that “the events giving rise to this criminal action were not related Meadows’s official duties.”
Though Meadows is seeking a different form of immunity than the Supreme Court granted Trump earlier this year, his appeal nevertheless relied heavily on the court’s divisive decision from July. In that decision, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority relied in part on the idea that the president’s power would be hampered if he faced prosecution for his official actions as soon as he ended his term.
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