{"id":2012220,"date":"2023-08-25T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-calls-fani-williss-accusation-of-hatch-act-violation-a-red-herring\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T15:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:49:24","slug":"mark-meadows-calls-fani-williss-accusation-of-hatch-act-violation-a-red-herring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-calls-fani-williss-accusation-of-hatch-act-violation-a-red-herring\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadows dismisses Willis&#8217;s Hatch Act accusation as a distraction."},"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\">18<\/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-calls-fani-williss-accusation-of-hatch-act-violation-a-red-herring%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=2012220&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 White \u200cHouse Chief of Staff Rejects Accusations of Hatch Act Violation<\/h2>\n<p>Former White \u2064House chief of\u2064 staff Mark Meadows\u200b has firmly denied accusations\u2064 from Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors that he violated the Hatch \u200dAct while working on behalf of President Donald\u200b Trump during the 2020 election. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ahead of a hearing on his bid to remove his \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-rejects-braggs-request-for-restraining-order-against-jordan\/\" title=\"Court Rejects Bragg\u2019s Request for Restraining Order Against Jordan\">state criminal case<\/a>\u2064 to federal court, Meadows dismissed District Attorney\u2063 Fani Willis&#8217;s \u2062citation of a Hatch Act violation as \u2062a &#8220;red herring&#8221; that is irrelevant to a state-level \u200bcourt proceeding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hatch Act, a federal law, prohibits members \u2062of the\u2063 executive branch (excluding \u2062the president and vice president) from engaging in political activity.<\/p>\n<h3>Meadows&#8217;s Defense<\/h3>\n<p>Meadows&#8217;s counsel \u2062argues that just because Trump was involved in\u200c personal or political\u200c actions does not mean that Meadows, as an assistant or adviser, was also \u2064engaged in political or personal activities. The defense is\u200c relying on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-calls-fani-williss-accusation-of-hatch-act-violation-a-red-herring\/\" title=\"Meadows dismisses Willis's Hatch Act accusation as a distraction.\">long-standing federal statute<\/a> that allows federal officials\u2062 charged with state crimes to move their cases to federal court if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/witness-in-ghislaine-maxwell-trial-recounts-dressing-in-schoolgirl-outfit-to-serve-jeffrey-epstein-tea\/\" title=\"Witness In Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Recounts Dressing In Schoolgirl Outfit To Serve Jeffrey Epstein Tea\">alleged criminal behavior<\/a> was carried out as part of \u2063their official duties.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr. Meadows need not prove\u200c that his conduct complied with \u200cfederal law in retrospect;\u2062 he is entitled to immunity because he acted in good faith \u2062to further what he understood\u200b to be his \u200dofficial duties,&#8221; Meadows&#8217;s counsel stated in a Friday filing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The defense argues that any dispute regarding the Hatch Act should be addressed in federal \u2063court after the case is removed from\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">state level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Prosecution&#8217;s Argument<\/h3>\n<p>In her filing, Willis contends that Meadows violated the Hatch Act by facilitating Trump&#8217;s efforts to challenge the election results\u200b in Georgia.\u200c She argues that Meadows&#8217;s activities were\u2062 &#8220;unofficial&#8221; and\u200d beyond \u2062the scope\u2063 of his official duties, and that he cannot cite any presidential authority \u2063to justify his\u2064 actions.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones\u2064 will consider the issue at an evidentiary hearing on Monday. In \u200ba\u200b separate order, Judge Jones has allowed \u200dmembers of the media to bring their laptops into the \u2063courtroom to\u2062 document \u200dthe hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Willis has also issued subpoenas for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his former investigator \u2062Frances Watson to testify at the hearing.\u200d Meadows claims that his actions in arranging a meeting between Trump and these officials were within his role as chief of staff.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a text message, Meadows asked Watson if there was\u2064 a way to expedite signature verification in Fulton \u200cCounty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-americans-confirmed-dead-in-eastern-ukraine-region-of-donbas\/\" title=\"Two Americans Confirmed Dead in Eastern Ukraine Region Of Donbas\">offering financial assistance<\/a> from the Trump campaign, according\u200d to \u200dthe indictment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meadows surrendered to authorities on Thursday and was granted a $100,000 bond. He has been charged with racketeering and\u200b solicitation \u200cof violation of oath of by a public officer. \u2064The case involves\u200c a\u200c total of 17 defendants, including Trump, who have been indicted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MUGS OF MAGA: MUG SHOTS OF TRUMP AND CO-DEFENDANTS RELEASED IN GEORGIA RICO CASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meadows&#8217;s arrest comes \u2062after\u200c his unsuccessful \u200cattempt to delay surrendering himself. \u200dJudge Jones denied his request, \u2062along with a similar one from former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, \u200cand scheduled a hearing for Clark&#8217;s request \u200don September 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK\u2063 HERE TO \u200dREAD MORE FROM \u2063THE\u200b WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows denied allegations by Fulton County prosecutors in Georgia that he violated the Hatch Act while supporting President Trump&#8217;s election result challenge. As he prepared for a hearing to move his state criminal case to federal court, Meadows defended his actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012221,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/2012220","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=2012220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}