A federal judge has denied former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ request to move his Georgia election interference charges under federal jurisdiction.
The order Friday is the latest development in an increasingly complicated effort to prosecute 19 people, including former President Donald Trump, alleged to have engaged in a sweeping conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results.
Meadows argued in court filings and at an Aug. 28 hearing that he met a three-pronged threshold to move his charges out of Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court and under federal jurisdiction because he was an officer of the United States, the felony counts he faces stemmed from actions done under that office, and that he raised a “colorable federal defense.”
