Mark Meadows requests removal of Georgia election case from Fulton County court
Eden Villalovas
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Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows is seeking to move the Fulton County, Georgia, case brought against him to federal court.
Meadows was indicted alongside the former president and 17 others on Monday for allegedly attempting to subvert the 2020 election results. George Terwilliger, Meadows’s attorney, argued in the filing that because the case relates to conduct that “occurred during his tenure and as part of his service as Chief of Staff,” he has the right to remove his portion of the proceedings from Fulton County Superior Court.
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“Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President’s behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President,” Terwilliger wrote in a 14-page filing with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Tuesday evening, saying these are expected from his role.
Meadows met with Georgia secretary of state chief investigator Frances Watson in Cobb County to discuss an ongoing audit of signature matches, according to the 98-page indictment. He was charged under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in the 41-count indictment.
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“This is precisely the kind of state interference in a federal official’s duties that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits, and that the removal statute shields against,” Terwilliger wrote, saying the law states he wouldn’t be liable to answer in a state court.
The court file states that Meadows plans to ask to dismiss the entire indictment and that moving the case to federal court would “halt the state-court proceedings” against him while the motion to dismiss is underway.