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Posted on 12/18/2023 9:00:11 PM PST by Coronal
Washington — A federal appeals court rejected a bid by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move the state election interference charges against him in Georgia to federal court.
A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by a district judge in September who said Meadows must fight the charges in state court because he did not demonstrate that his alleged conduct was related to his official duties in the Trump administration.
Writing for the court, Chief Judge William Pryor said in a 35-page opinion Monday that a statute allowing federal officials to move their case to federal court from state court "does not apply to former officers."
"Meadows, as a former chief of staff, is not a federal 'officer' within the meaning of the removal statute," Pryor wrote. "Even if Meadows were an 'officer,' his participation in an alleged conspiracy to overturn a presidential election was not related to his official duties."
Meadows was White House chief of staff under former President Donald Trump, including during the final months of his presidency. Meadows, Trump and 17 others were indicted in August in Fulton County on charges that they allegedly tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election to keep Trump in office. Four of the defendants have since pleaded guilty. Meadows and the remaining defendants have pleaded not guilty.
Pryor wrote that "whatever the precise contours of Meadows' official authority, that authority did not extend to an alleged conspiracy to overturn valid election results."
"The district court concluded, and we agree, that the federal executive has limited authority to superintend the states' administration of elections — neither the Constitution, nor statutory law, nor precedent prescribe any role for the White House chief of staff," he said.
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It's usually pretty accurate.
Pryor, i think he was on the short list for SCOTUS. Hinestly, Trump should throw away the list and get someone from middle America who wasn’t screened by, what we now know are hacks.
Yeah, Pryor is a Smirking Chimp stooge.
This is WAR!
Take scalps.
Meadows was a current officer at the time of the alleged "crime".
29th White House Chief of Staff - In office
March 31, 2020 – January 20, 2021
A stooge rating of "11" out of 10 on this "ruling".
The original district "judge" was an Obama stooge - Steve C. Jones.
Pryor is a Smirking Chimp stooge, putting the smackdown on the enemies of the Bush clan.
Robin Rosenbaum is an Obama stooge, and Nancy Abudu is a Tater stooge.
Meadows went down the equivalent of an Iroquois gauntlet.
Meanwhile, John Roberts is laughing up his sleeve at his "non-political" court.
He can now appeal to the full bench of the 11th Circuit (which I believe still has a majority conservative lean) or to the Supreme Court.
Pryor wrote that “whatever the precise contours of Meadows’ official authority, that authority did not extend to an alleged conspiracy to overturn valid election results.”
It sounds like the “un-biased” judge has made a decision on the case without ever having the trial. That was not the question before the court.
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The witch hunt continues and the GOP never learns. When they get in power they sit on thier hands and want to be thier friends
Corrupt kangaroo court...
I would think it would be the same communist jury pool for either one.
The GOPe has done a lot to derail Trump’s legacy. Pretty much everyone who wants moderation, is not serious about solving any of the nation’s problems.
Bush's picks tend to be quite unreliable. Obama's and Clinton's are downright trash.
Yes, people utterly unfit to be in charge of mousetraps, let alone a court.
Yup. A lot of judges are just arrogant lying sacks of sh*t.
We just seem to get sh*tty irrational people to be judges much of the time.
So this morning is the first day of the 2020 election review in AZ regarding the 19k illegally counted ballots in a 12k vote margin election. This is cause to de-certify AZ ‘elector’ slate sent by AZ to Congress in 2020. More likely this will be discussed tomorrow.
The only story I can find is regarding an investigation into the would-be Trump electors from that state.
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