{"id":2015542,"date":"2023-08-29T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-two-georgia-defendants-granted-hearing-on-federal-court-removal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:17:21","slug":"donald-trump-indictment-two-georgia-defendants-granted-hearing-on-federal-court-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-two-georgia-defendants-granted-hearing-on-federal-court-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Georgia defendants granted hearing on federal court removal in Donald Trump indictment."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdonald-trump-indictment-two-georgia-defendants-granted-hearing-on-federal-court-removal%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=2015542&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>Georgia Alternative Electors Seek to Move Racketeering Case to Federal Court<\/h2>\n<p>A pair of \u2063Georgia alternative electors charged in President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-co-defendant-chesebro-makes-surprise-speedy-trial-request\/\" title=\"Co-defendant Chesebro unexpectedly demands 'speedy trial' in Donald Trump indictment.\">sweeping racketeering case<\/a> will\u200c have\u200c a Sept. \u206220 hearing over their bid to remove their case to federal \u200dcourt.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S.\u200c District Judge Steve Jones ordered an evidentiary hearing for Cathleen Latham and David Shafer,\u2062 who both posed as \u200dfake electors and were charged among 17 others\u2063 (including Trump) as part of Fulton\u200b County District\u2063 Attorney\u2063 Fani Willis&#8217;s criminal investigation, which came to \u200ca \u2062head with \u200ca grand jury indictment earlier \u200cthis month.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Boosters,\u200d Fencers, \u2062and Cleaners: Inside Cartels&#8217; Newest Criminal Enterprise of\u2063 Organized Retail Theft<\/h3>\n<p>Another alternate elector, Republican Georgia Sen. Shawn Still, has also requested to have his case \u2064tried in federal court. \u2063Other defendants, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and \u2064former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, began the trend last week to have their \u200dcases removed from state court.<\/p>\n<p>Latham, Shafer, \u200dand Still each\u200d argue \u2064the\u2062 role of electors was a federal position. Legal experts have said one of the \u2064benefits of removing the case to federal court was the defendants&#8217; potential\u200b access to\u2062 a broader \u200b(and more politically \u2064diverse) jury\u2063 pool, compared to the solidly Democratic Fulton\u2063 County state jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>To have state \u200dcases transferred to federal court, defendants must show they\u2064 were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-two-georgia-defendants-granted-hearing-on-federal-court-removal\/\" title=\"Two Georgia defendants granted hearing on federal court removal in Donald Trump indictment.\">federal officers performing federal duties<\/a> at the \u200btime of an alleged crime and typically\u2062 must raise a plausible federal defense. \u200dIn\u200b the case of the alternate electors, they say \u200bthat they are immune from state prosecution because state laws are preempted by federal laws and they were acting in a federal capacity at the time of their\u2063 alleged crime.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Meadows \u200ctook the stand\u200d in \u200cAtlanta for more than three hours at the\u200b all-day hearing over his bid to chart a path to federal court, which ended with Jones promising a \u2063ruling \u2064as soon as \u200dpossible, noting \u2064that \u2063Jones\u2062 acknowledged Meadows&#8217;s arraignment\u200b was set for Sept. 6. Experts told CNN that Meadows&#8217;s treatment over his removal bid could serve as a bellwether for how\u200d other prosecutions in\u2064 the case will proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The three alternative electors\u200b and every defendant in the case are facing one \u2064count of violating\u200d Georgia&#8217;s racketeering \u2064law,\u200d which is part\u2063 of the 41-count indictment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Latham faces six conspiracy counts and four other charges, including impersonating a public \u200dofficer, forgery, false statements and writings, and criminal attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fires-back-after-georgia-indictment-raises-questions-about-charging-documents\/\" title=\"Trump responds to Georgia indictment, raises concerns about charging documents.\">commit filing false documents<\/a>. Shafer is facing two counts of forgery and three counts of\u2064 false statements and writings, on top of one \u2063count \u2062of criminal intent \u200bto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wife-of-trump-ally-indicted-in-georgia-receives-letter-in-mail-this-is-not-going-to-end-well\/\" title=\"Trump ally's wife in Georgia indicted, receives ominous letter: 'This won't end well'\">file false documents<\/a> and one count of impersonating a public officer.<\/p>\n<p>Clark is set\u2064 to go before Jones on Sept. 18 for his evidentiary hearing, and a hearing over Still&#8217;s \u200crequest has not been established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia alternative electors charged in Trump&#8217;s racketeering case will have a Sept. 20 hearing to move their case to federal court. Judge Steve Jones ordered an evidentiary hearing for Cathleen Latham and David Shafer, who posed as fake electors among 17 others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015543,"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-2015542","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\/2015542","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=2015542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}