{"id":2023117,"date":"2023-09-06T07:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-could-beat-trump-to-supreme-court-over-federal-court-removal-bid\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T07:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:15:51","slug":"mark-meadows-could-beat-trump-to-supreme-court-over-federal-court-removal-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-could-beat-trump-to-supreme-court-over-federal-court-removal-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadows may surpass Trump in Supreme Court race for federal court removal."},"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-could-beat-trump-to-supreme-court-over-federal-court-removal-bid%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=2023117&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 House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Could Beat Trump to\u200b Supreme Court in \u2062Bid to Remove Georgia Criminal Case to Federal\u200b Court<\/h2>\n<p>Legal experts believe that former White House Chief of\u2063 Staff Mark Meadows\u2063 may reach the steps \u200cof the Supreme\u2062 Court before his ex-boss, Donald Trump, in his attempt to remove \u2063his Georgia criminal racketeering case to federal court. Meadows \u2062is currently awaiting a decision from U.S. District Judge Steve Jones on whether his case, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, can\u200c be moved from\u2063 state to federal court. Meadows argues that his actions surrounding the charges were part of his official\u2062 duties.<\/p>\n<h3>Setting Precedent and Seeking Removal<\/h3>\n<p>According \u2063to Atlanta-based\u2064 defense\u2063 attorney Philip Holloway, Meadows&#8217;s co-defendant in the Georgia\u200b racketeering indictment has a higher chance of\u2062 reaching the Supreme \u2063Court first, regardless of Trump&#8217;s increasing indictments and the upcoming 2024 presidential\u2062 election. Holloway suggests that regardless of Judge Jones&#8217;s ruling, it will likely be appealed to the U.S. Court\u2064 of Appeals for the 11th\u2062 Circuit. The appeals court ruling would\u2062 then set a precedent, potentially leading to a Supreme Court ruling if\u200c the case\u200d reaches that level. Holloway\u2062 notes\u200c that four other \u2063defendants \u2064listed \u200bin the indictment are \u200calso \u200bseeking similar removal bids, while Trump&#8217;s team has \u2064not filed for removal.<\/p>\n<h3>Establishing Precedent and Defining Overt Acts<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Jones \u200bhimself acknowledged during an evidentiary hearing that his decision in\u2063 Meadows&#8217;s case could \u2063establish\u2062 precedent for future cases, as there is a\u2062 lack \u2064of case law\u2064 to guide\u2062 his pending decision.\u200d Meadows&#8217;s indictment includes a violation \u2064of Georgia&#8217;s racketeering law and several\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-in-mark-meadows-case-orders-extra-briefing-from-attorneys\/\" title=\"Federal Court orders additional briefing from attorneys in Mark Meadows case.\">overt acts\u2062 attributed<\/a> to him. In a supplemental filing, Judge Jones asked whether at least one \u200bof the overt acts \u200dwould \u200bbe sufficient for removal under the statute being cited for Meadows&#8217;s removal bid.<\/p>\n<h3>Arguments for \u2064Removal and State Court\u200c Proceedings<\/h3>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis argues that Meadows committed\u200d crimes beyond his\u200b official duties to aid Trump&#8217;s pursuit of overturning the election. She contends that even if there is only one official act, it should not be enough to move the case. \u200cMeadows&#8217;s counsel, on the\u2063 other hand, argues for removal based\u200b on Meadows&#8217;s articulation of his\u200c federal defense, rather\u200d than the\u200c state&#8217;s articulation of its charges. Willis wants\u200c the case to be sent back to state court\u200b and insists on \u2062trying all defendants together in the state forum. Meadows, however, seeks a more favorable\u200c jury pool in federal court and hopes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-could-beat-trump-to-supreme-court-over-federal-court-removal-bid\/\" title=\"Meadows may surpass Trump in Supreme Court race for federal court removal.\">avoid public televised proceedings due<\/a> to \u200dthe more relaxed state court rules.<\/p>\n<h3>Implications for Trump and Timing<\/h3>\n<p>Legal experts, including former \u2064Trump impeachment defense attorney Alan\u2064 Dershowitz, suggest that Trump&#8217;s counsel\u2062 is likely observing\u2064 Meadows&#8217;s attorneys ahead \u200bof their own motion to\u200b seek removal. Dershowitz believes that \u2063if Meadows\u200d loses and seeks \u2062an interlocutory appeal or mandamus, the case may quickly reach the Supreme Court, potentially delaying\u2064 the trial. However, Chuck Rosenberg, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-muscles-out-chicago-prosecutor-hot-on-the-heels-of-powerful-dems\/\" title=\"Biden Muscles Out Chicago Prosecutor Hot on the Heels of Powerful Dems\">top federal prosecutor<\/a>, \u200bbelieves that Meadows could swiftly \u200cappeal Judge Jones&#8217;s order, as \u200dthe court record in this case is relatively small and does not have to take a long time.<\/p>\n<p>As Meadows awaits Judge Jones&#8217;s decision, he entered a not guilty plea in \u2062state court and waived his appearance before Superior Court\u200c Judge Scott McAfee, along with the\u2062 other defendants in the case. McAfee will hold a\u2063 livestreamed hearing\u200b to \u200bconsider motions filed by attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney\u200b Powell, who seek separate trials from\u2062 each other and the other \u200cdefendants. The judge also requested a &#8220;good-faith estimate&#8221; from Willis&#8217;s team regarding the time needed for the \u200dstate \u2062to present its case during \u200da joint trial of all 19 defendants, which could \u200dimpact Meadows&#8217;s case\u2062 depending on his pursuit to stay in federal court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/mark-meadows-trump-supreme-court-georgia-criminal-case\">Click here<\/a> \u2063 to read more from the Washington\u200c Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows may outpace his ex-boss in reaching the Supreme Court. Legal experts suggest he could succeed in moving his Georgia criminal racketeering case to federal court. Meadows awaits U.S. District Judge Steve Jones&#8217;s ruling on the matter, which will determine the course of his case filed by Fulton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2023118,"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-2023117","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\/2023117","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=2023117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}