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Mark Meadows requests emergency stay in Georgia election interference case
View Date:2025-01-11 09:34:14
Three days after losing his bid to have his Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case removed to federal court, former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Monday filed an emergency motion asking the judge to stay his order, pending the appeals process.
Judge Steve Jones on Friday rejected Meadows' bid to have his case moved, based on a federal law that calls for the removal of criminal proceedings brought in state court to the federal court system when someone is charged for actions they allegedly took as a federal official acting "under color" of their office.
Meadows immediately filed a notice of appeal following the ruling.
MORE: Judge denies Mark Meadows' bid to remove his Georgia election case to federal court
Meadows' motion on Monday noted that state is seeking to try Meadows and the case's other 18 defendants as early as Oct 23.
"Absent a stay, the State will continue seeking to try Meadows 42 days from now," the filing said. "If the State gets its way, Meadows could be forced to go to trial -- and could be convicted and incarcerated -- before the standard timeline for a federal appeal would play out."
Meadows and 18 others, including former President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty last month in to all charges in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia.
The former president says his actions were not illegal and that the investigation is politically motivated.
Meadows, in his motion Monday, said he "respectfully believes the Court erred" in denying his request to move his trial, and that he "intends to seek expedited review in the Court of Appeals later today."
The judge has already ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to respond by noon Tuesday.
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