{"id":2018652,"date":"2023-08-31T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-challenges-fani-willis-on-fulton-county-prosecution-in-new-court-filings\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T20:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:36:03","slug":"mark-meadows-challenges-fani-willis-on-fulton-county-prosecution-in-new-court-filings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-challenges-fani-willis-on-fulton-county-prosecution-in-new-court-filings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Meadows questions Fani Willis&#8217; Fulton County prosecution in recent court filings."},"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\">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-challenges-fani-willis-on-fulton-county-prosecution-in-new-court-filings%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=2018652&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>Mark Meadows and Fulton County District \u2062Attorney Fani \u200cWillis Battle Over Racketeering \u2064and Election Interference \u2064Case<\/h2>\n<p>Mark \u200cMeadows, the former White House chief of staff, and\u2062 Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis clashed in\u200b court filings\u200d on \u2064Thursday regarding \u2064the removal\u200d of \u200chis racketeering \u200dand election interference \u200bcase to \u2063federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows is seeking \u200dto \u2063move his \u200bcase by arguing that the actions he was charged\u2063 for, \u2063such as establishing calls and contacting state officials, were part of\u200c his official duties. He is also attempting to have the\u200d charges dismissed \u200bin federal court.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s\u2062 GOP Support Grows\u200b Amid Indictments<\/h3>\n<p>After \u200ca hearing on Monday regarding Meadows&#8217;s \u2062request,\u200c United States District Judge Steve Jones requested additional written arguments from \u200bboth\u2063 parties. He questioned whether any act listed \u200din the indictment described Meadows acting within his \u2064official capacity and \u2062if\u2064 that could warrant moving the entire case to \u200dfederal \u2064court.<\/p>\n<p>In a filing\u2064 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-hunter-bidens-original-sweetheart-plea-deal-falls-apart-after-he-appears-in-court\/\" title=\"Breaking: Hunter Biden's Plea Deal Crumbles as He Attends Court\">federal district \u200dcourt<\/a> in Atlanta on Thursday, Willis argued that Meadows \u2062committed crimes as part of a broader scheme beyond his \u2064job responsibilities to\u2063 assist former \u200bPresident Donald Trump in overturning the election. Prosecutors contend that \u200deven one\u200b official act should not be sufficient to transfer \u2063the case.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The circumstances \u200cof\u200b this case are easily distinguishable,&#8221; prosecutors\u2062 wrote. &#8220;The \u2062defendant conspired not for any purpose related to his duties as chief of staff, but to transform\u200b Mr. Trump\u200d from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-year-in-liberal-celebrity-freakouts\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: The Year In Liberal Celebrity Freakouts\">losing political candidate<\/a> into a\u2064 winning one, no matter what the\u2062 outcome\u2063 of the election had actually been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prosecutors also\u200c allege that there are valid reasons to doubt \u200cat \u2064least part \u2064of Meadows&#8217;s testimony, highlighting that he repeatedly \u200bused the \u2062pronoun\u200d &#8216;we,&#8217; \u200cwhich could significantly alter the meaning \u200bof his statements. During the hearing, Meadows revised\u200b portions\u2062 of his testimony, attributing his excessive \u2064use of &#8220;we&#8221; to a habit he developed during his time as a\u2062 congressman \u2064to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-challenges-fani-willis-on-fulton-county-prosecution-in-new-court-filings\/\" title=\"Mark Meadows questions Fani Willis' Fulton County prosecution in recent court filings.\">avoid taking excessive credit<\/a>\u2062 for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows faces charges of racketeering and solicitation of violation\u200d of oath\u200b by a public \u200bofficer stemming from his involvement\u2062 in Trump&#8217;s call \u2064to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, where Trump urged him to &#8220;find&#8221; enough votes to win the state.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cindictment includes 161 actions \u2062that Meadows \u2062and the other \u206218\u2062 defendants allegedly took as part of \u2063the scheme to undermine the election.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows&#8217;s legal team responded \u200don\u200c Thursday, arguing that\u200c the state&#8217;s portrayal of the case should not determine its removal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Removal is also required, even if the State \u2062has charged some acts\u2062 beyond Mr.\u200b Meadows&#8217;s official duties, because what controls is Mr. Meadows&#8217;s\u200b articulation of his federal defense, not the State&#8217;s articulation of \u200bits state charges,&#8221;\u2062 his attorneys\u200c wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jones has not indicated when he will make\u2063 a ruling on the matter \u2063but has acknowledged that Meadows&#8217;s case could\u2063 establish a precedent.<\/p>\n<p>At\u2063 least \u2064four other defendants, including former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and three alternate electors for Trump (Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, state Sen. Shawn Still, and Cathy Latham), have also requested to move their cases to federal court, citing their status as federal officials within\u2063 the DOJ or as presidential electors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from\u2063 The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Meadows and Fulton County DA Fani Willis clashed in court filings, debating the transfer of his racketeering and election interference case to federal court. Meadows aims to relocate the case, claiming the charges involve actions like making calls and contacting state officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2018653,"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-2018652","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\/2018652","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=2018652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}