{"id":2002132,"date":"2023-08-16T05:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T09:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulton-or-federal-trump-indictment-poised-to-set-off-court-venue-dispute\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T05:53:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T09:53:13","slug":"fulton-or-federal-trump-indictment-poised-to-set-off-court-venue-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulton-or-federal-trump-indictment-poised-to-set-off-court-venue-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump indictment could spark court venue dispute: Fulton or federal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ffulton-or-federal-trump-indictment-poised-to-set-off-court-venue-dispute%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=2002132&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>Donald Trump Faces Racketeering Charges in Georgia State Court<\/h2>\n<p>Donald Trump is\u2063 currently facing a total of \u206213 charges in a sweeping racketeering\u200c indictment in \u200bGeorgia \u200dstate\u2064 court. However, there is a possibility that the former president could request a venue change to a federal court, which would result in\u200b a \u200ddifferent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-law-professor-declares-jan-6-trump-indictment-is-not-likely-to-survive\/\" title=\"Harvard Law Professor doubts Jan. 6 Trump indictment will hold up.\">jury \u200dpool<\/a> and camera bans.<\/p>\n<p>If the trial were to take place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-new-jersey-police-lieutenant-on-white-house-cocaine-scandal\/\" title=\"Former NJ Police Lieutenant on White House Cocaine Scandal\">state\u200c court<\/a>, Georgia law allows for \u2064cameras during judicial proceedings with the approval of a judge. \u2064This means that it would be\u2062 the first and only one of Trump&#8217;s four\u2064 criminal cases to be televised. Trump has a history\u200b of challenging courtroom venues and judges, and if successful in Fulton County, the public may not have the option to livestream the trial in a federal \u200dcourthouse.<\/p>\n<h3>Mark Meadows \u2064Attempts to Relocate \u2064Case to\u2063 Federal Court<\/h3>\n<p>On Tuesday, Trump&#8217;s former chief\u2063 of staff, Mark Meadows, became the \u200bfirst\u2063 of the \u206319 defendants in the racketeering indictment \u200dto seek a relocation of his case to federal court in\u200c Atlanta. Meadows&#8217;s counsel argues that he has the\u2062 right\u200c to change venues \u2062because the \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulton-or-federal-trump-indictment-poised-to-set-off-court-venue-dispute\/\" title=\"Trump indictment could spark court venue dispute: Fulton or federal?\">alleged \u200ccriminal conduct occurred<\/a> &#8220;during his tenure \u200band as part of his service as chief of staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moving the\u200b trial from Fulton County to federal court could potentially benefit Trump and Meadows. They could have\u200d a higher \u2063chance of drawing a politically \u200dfriendly jury pool or even end up with a judge\u2063 appointed\u2063 by the\u2064 former president.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, jurors in a federal court\u2062 trial would\u200c be \u2064selected from 10 counties in\u200d the Atlanta\u2064 division, including five where Trump received at least 36%\u2062 of the vote. However,\u200d there\u2064 are exceptions to this rule, as seen in the trial of the three men \u2063convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Jurors \u200cwere selected from \u2063the entire 43-county \u2062Southern District of Georgia due to the high-profile and sensitive nature \u200bof \u2064the case.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump&#8217;s case\u2063 were to cast a wider net, \u2063it would be \u200bselected from 46 counties in the Northern District, which include\u200d conservative strongholds that elected GOP Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andrew Clyde, and Barry Loudermilk.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District\u200b Court Judge\u2063 Steve CarMichael Jones, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, will be the deciding\u2064 factor in Meadows&#8217;s \u200bbid to move to federal court.<\/p>\n<h3>Potential Move to Federal Court in Georgia<\/h3>\n<p>Legal experts believe that Trump is likely to attempt a similar \u2064move to federal court in Georgia, despite being rejected in separate motions for his\u2064 Manhattan\u200b criminal indictment. In his New York case, the judge ruled that the conduct charged in the indictment did not relate to any act done by\u2062 Trump \u200bas president.<\/p>\n<p>However, the circumstances surrounding the racketeering\u200c case in Georgia could provide\u200d a better chance \u200cfor Trump and his co-defendants to have their cases taken to federal court. The \u2064so-called removal statute enacted by Congress in\u2062 1948 \u200dcould \u200bprotect federal officials from harassment by state officials and allow for a venue\u200d change.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for Meadows argue\u200c that\u2063 his alleged criminal conduct\u200c occurred during his tenure as Chief \u200dof Staff, making him eligible for removal to federal court under the statute.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Trump succeeds in moving the case to federal court, it is important to note that\u200c the\u200c charges are still\u200c Georgia state\u200c crimes and cannot be pardoned by a president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/donald-trump-indicted-georgia-racketeering-indictment\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump confronts 13 charges in a broad racketeering indictment in Georgia state court. However, he may seek a venue change to a federal court, aiming for a distinct jury pool and camera restrictions. Georgia law permits cameras in state court trials, but special provisions exist for Trump&#8217;s potential trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002135,"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-2002132","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\/2002132","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=2002132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}