Posted on 08/15/2023 2:46:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows officially filed Tuesday to move the case brought against him by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis into federal court, just a day after he was indicted along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others on charges of attempting to overturn Trump's election loss in the state.
The filing from Meadows' attorney George Terwilliger and Atlanta-based attorney Joseph Englert is based on a federal law that they argue requires 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.
Trump is also expected to mount a similar effort, according to sources familiar with the matter.
"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 the filing. "One would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do these sorts of things."
"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.
Terwilliger additionally says in the filing that while Meadows intends to file a motion to dismiss the indictment entirely, removing the case into federal court would "halt the state-court proceedings against Mr. Meadows."
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Looks like that top-down, bottom-up collapse that good ol’ Commie Van Jones once described as necessary to remake the system in their vision is progressing quite rapidly. I expect it to get much worse, too. The rats are under pressure and you know what they say about a cornered rat. All of these moves are out of desperation.
Kanye West’s Ex-Publicist is black.🥴
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Fuc*in’ A.
You approve of political prosecution? Let's hear you defend Merrick Garland, Fani, Jack Smith, and Bragg.
The big transcontinental railroads got land grants from the government. I don’t know about other cases, but there was a lot of conflict over land between sheepmen and cattlemen, “land barons” and “squatters.” Towns were also fighting to get rail connections that would bring business to them, rather than to other towns.
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What political persecution? Had we did what a trump is accused of we’d be buried by now. He cries persecution. But think about it, he’s charged with over 90 felonies. What if the prosecutors are screw ups and only half are legit?
DeSantis will take the high road. He knows this J6 stuff is a farce. He's said as much.
They’re black and have a vagina.
That’s all the “qualifications” they need these days. /s
When are Republican DA’s in Republican States going to start bring charges against the Bidens, the Clintons, all these rogue prosecutors, other democrats. start charging with all their crimes and start grand jury proceedings on all of them. When is Congress going to impeach Biden and his corrupt Attorney General?
Plea deal.........
Not sure they need a vagina. In fact, not having one may be a career booster.
“Just how much of a farce is our legal system?”
As much as lawyers want to make of it.
I know this is technical for most people, but this case is not required to be removed to Federal Court.
However, a defendant who was a Federal employee can file a motion for removal to Federal Court and it must be removed.
It makes no difference if none of the alleged crimes are violations of Federal law.
The applicable law was enacted for situations exactly like this case.
I had not heard this. Is it your opinion that it will be moved to a Federal Court?
I expect as many cases that can will be moved…
TRUMP SPEAKING TODAY
They can threaten to arrest me for not showing up or responding all they want. IDGAF. I refuse to participate in any way, in this corrupt "legal system" of ours and IDGAF what anyone says.
At this point, Resistance is Patriotic!
If they get the cases moved to a “friendly” (and by that I mean FAIR) court, and the charges get (rightfully) tossed, they’ll have ever Dem DA in the country filing every charge they can think of. They simply CANNOT let him make it to the campaign “clean”.
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