The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Mark Meadows—former President Donald Trump’s one-time chief of staff—cannot move his Georgia charges to federal court, affirming a lower court’s September ruling. In the Monday ruling, Chief Judge William Pryor wrote that Meadows’ case must stay in Georgia as the federal-officer removal statute Meadows’ team argued applied actually does not apply to former officials and, even if it did, Pryor wrote the criminal action was “not related to Meadows’s [sic] official duty.” The ruling was unanimous and came just three days...

The 3-0 decision was authored by the court’s conservative chief judge, William Pryor. Had the agreed with Meadows and transferred the charges to federal court, it could have upended the case against Trump and all of the defendants, causing significant delays and even a potential ruling that the matter could be dismissed altogether because of its relationship to Trump’s authority as president. Instead, the panel ruled that a law permitting federal officials to transfer state-level charges into federal court applies only to current government officials, not former ones like Meadows....

• The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Mark Meadows should be tried in Georgia court rather than federal court. A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a request from Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to move his Georgia trial on election racketeering charges to federal court. Meadows, who was charged with Trump and 17 others in what prosecutors say was a sprawling conspiracy to reverse President Joe Biden's 2020 victory in Georgia, argued the crimes he is accused of committing were...

Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, center, exits the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his criminal election interference trial from Georgia state court to federal court. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a prior federal district court ruling rejecting the transfer of the case against Meadows from Fulton County Superior Court. Meadows is charged in Georgia with...

A federal appeals court has rejected former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ attempt to move his Georgia election interference criminal case to federal court.

In a 47-page opinion issued Monday, a three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower-court’s ruling that Meadows could not use a federal statute to move his prosecution to a federal court in Georgia.

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A federal appeals court on Monday rejected an effort by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his Georgia election interference case out of state court. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judge’s ruling from September that said Meadows had not demonstrated that the alleged conduct that prompted his prosecution was related to his official duties in the Trump administration. The court’s decision is a blow to Meadows, who in August sought “prompt removal” of his case from state court, citing a federal law...

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...

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....