Lawyers for Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who is charged in Georgia with taking part in a broad conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, will ask a judge Monday to move the case against him from state to federal court.
The hearing will be the first of what will likely be a regular rotation of appearances by the Georgia defendants in state and federal courtrooms to litigate pretrial issues — a reminder of the case’s complexity and the potential for delays before it can be ultimately heard by a jury.
“Even if the defendant somehow had been acting as authorized under federal law , that authority would be negated by the evidence of his ‘personal interest, malice, actual criminal intent,’” they wrote.Prosecutors may call witnesses at Monday’s hearing, creating the possibility of an early mini-trial to determine Meadows’s motivations during the post-election period.
Hilbert, Kaufman and a lawyer for Watson did not respond to requests for comment. Spokesmen for Raffensperger and Trump declined to comment. That would create an unusual scenario in which Meadows would be prosecuted by Willis’s office under state law but in front of a federal judge. If convicted, he would not be eligible for a pardon by the president, as he would be if convicted under federal law, experts said.
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