{"id":2001677,"date":"2023-08-15T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-requests-removal-of-georgia-election-case-from-fulton-county-court\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:26:48","slug":"mark-meadows-requests-removal-of-georgia-election-case-from-fulton-county-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-requests-removal-of-georgia-election-case-from-fulton-county-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Meadows seeks transfer of Georgia election case from Fulton County court."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-meadows-requests-removal-of-georgia-election-case-from-fulton-county-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Seeks to Move Georgia Case\u200d to \u200cFederal Court<\/h2>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is \u2064making a \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-defends-mara-gays-disturbing-american-flags-statement-social-media-pounds-them\/\" title=\"NYT Defends Mara Gay\u2019s \u2018Disturbing\u2019 American Flags Statement. Social Media Pounds Them.\">bold move<\/a> in the Fulton County, Georgia case brought against him. He is\u2064 seeking to have the case transferred to\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">federal court<\/a>, adding another\u2062 twist to the already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-sets-trial-date-for-elon-musk-legal-battle-with-twitter\/\" title=\"Judge Sets Trial Date for Elon Musk Legal Battle With Twitter\">high-profile legal battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows,\u200d along with\u200c Trump and 17 others, \u2063was\u2064 indicted on Monday for allegedly attempting to subvert the 2020 \u200belection results. In\u2062 a strategic maneuver, Meadows&#8217; attorney,\u2064 George Terwilliger, argued\u2063 that the case \u200dshould be moved because it is\u200c directly\u2062 related to his client&#8217;s actions during his tenure as Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing Mr. \u2063Meadows \u200bis alleged in\u2063 the\u2063 indictment to have done is\u200b criminal \u200bper se: arranging Oval Office meetings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-requests-removal-of-georgia-election-case-from-fulton-county-court\/\" title=\"Mark Meadows seeks transfer of Georgia election case from Fulton County court.\">contacting state officials<\/a> on the\u2062 President\u2019s\u200d behalf, visiting a state\u2063 government building, and setting \u2064up a phone call for\u200d the \u2062President,&#8221; \u200bTerwilliger wrote in the filing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Terwilliger emphasized that these actions were expected from Meadows&#8217; role and should not be considered criminal. He believes\u200c that by moving the case \u2063to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yellen-eager-to-work-with-china-on-debt-other-global-challenges\/\" title=\"Yellen \u2018eager\u2019 to work with China on debt, other global challenges\">federal \u200bcourt<\/a>, they can ensure a fair and impartial trial.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 98-page indictment, Meadows had a meeting with \u2062Georgia Secretary of State \u2062chief investigator Frances Watson in Cobb County\u2064 to discuss an ongoing \u200caudit\u200c of signature\u2063 matches. \u200dThis meeting is a key element in the case against him.<\/p>\n<p>The court file reveals that Meadows \u2063intends to request\u2063 the dismissal\u2062 of the entire indictment. \u200cBy \u200cmoving the case to federal court, he hopes to temporarily halt the state-court proceedings against him while\u200b the motion to dismiss is being considered.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing \u200dstory, and we will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s ex-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, aims to transfer the Fulton County, Georgia case to federal court. Meadows, indicted with Trump and 17 others, is accused of trying to undermine the 2020 election. His attorney, George Terwilliger, contends that the case&#8217;s connection to federal law justifies the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}