Three federal judges questioned Mark Meadows' legal team on Friday about the push to move his election charges in Fulton County, Georgia, to federal court. Meadows, a onetime chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, is challenging a lower court's ruling that the charges stay in Georgia. Meadows appealed before the federal Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office charged the former White House official with conspiring to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results earlier this summer, to which he has pleaded not...

Mark Meadows shouldn’t bank on his Georgia state election prosecution proceeding in federal court if the skeptical questions raised by a federal appeals court on Friday are any indication. A three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scrutinized the breadth of Meadows’ position and wondered if the law at issue allowing removal of state cases to federal court even applies to former officers like him as opposed to just current ones. Whatever the panel decides, its opinion won’t necessarily be the last word, because if Meadows...

A federal appeals court appeared skeptical of former Donald Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ attempt to move his Georgia election interference criminal case to federal court during a hearing Friday morning. Meadows attorney George Terwilliger argued that he should be protected because the Fulton County racketeering charges against him stem from his time in the White House and therefore were part of his role as a federal official. Moving the case to federal court could let Meadows get the charges dismissed altogether by invoking federal immunity extended...

A three-judge federal appeals court panel appeared unconvinced on Friday that Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows can move his charges in the Georgia 2020 election racketeering case to federal court. Meadows is charged alongside former President Trump and more than a dozen others over accusations they unlawfully attempted to overturn President Biden’s victory in Georgia. Arguing the charges fall within his capacity as chief of staff, Meadows contends his prosecution should be transferred out of state court, a strategy that would provide him a pathway to attempt...

The former Trump chief of staff again seeks to move his case into federal court. An appeals court on Friday is set to hear arguments from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as he continues his effort to move the election interference charges against him in Georgia out of state court and into federal court. Meadows was charged in Fulton County this summer, alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others, with conspiring to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results. He pleaded not guilty and has since unsuccessfully sought to...

A federal appeals court is expected to consider Friday whether Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, charged by Fulton county prosecutors over his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, should see his criminal case transferred from state to federal court. Meadows has so far been unsuccessful in his removal efforts. The US district judge Steve Jones denied the motion in September and Meadows challenged the decision to the US court of appeals for the eleventh circuit, which scheduled oral arguments for 9am....

ATLANTA – Mark Meadows on Friday morning will try, again, to move his Georgia election racketeering criminal case to federal court. The former White House chief of staff to Donald Trump, who was indicted alongside the former president and 17 others in August, lost his original bid to seek a federal trial for state charges after taking the gamble of testifying before U.S. District Judge Steve Jones. Jones wasn’t compelled by Meadows' testimony that his interceding in the Georgia election was a responsibility of his federal office, remanding his case...

FILE - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. A federal appeals court will hear arguments Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, over whether the election interference charges filed against Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows should be moved from a state court to federal court. Meadows, who is charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others, is accused of scheming to keep the Republican in power after Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020. Meadows...

FILE - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. A federal appeals court will hear arguments Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, over whether the election interference charges filed against Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows should be moved from a state court to federal court. Meadows, who is charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others, is accused of scheming to keep the Republican in power after Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020. Meadows...

FILE - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. A federal appeals court will hear arguments Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, over whether the election interference charges filed against Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows should be moved from a state court to federal court. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) A federal appeals court will hear arguments Friday over whether the election interference charges filed against Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows should be moved...