Mark Meadows, former White House chief of workers, middle, exits the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023.
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A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by former Trump White House chief of workers Mark Meadows to move his prison election interference trial from Georgia state court to federal court.
The eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous federal district court ruling rejecting the switch of the case in opposition to Meadows from Fulton County Superior Court.
Meadows is charged in Georgia with criminally conspiring with Donald Trump and others to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden within the state’s 2020 election.
Monday’s resolution by a three-judge federal appeals panel in Atlanta got here days after Meadows’ legal professionals had argued for the switch at a listening to.
The panel stated {that a} legislation defending an officer of the United States from having to reply for his official conduct in state court “doesn’t apply to former officers” resembling Meadows.
And even when Meadows was an “officer” of the United States by being Trump’s White House chief of workers on the time of the charged crimes, “his participation in an alleged conspiracy to overturn a presidential election was not associated to his official duties,” the panel stated in its 47-page opinion.
Meadows has pleaded not responsible within the case, the place he, Trump, and 17 different folks have been indicted earlier this yr.