"He's in big trouble": Experts say Mark Meadows' "goose is cooked"
after new Fani Willis filing
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis fired back at former White
House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Thursday after a judge questioned
whether his case should be moved to federal court.
Meadows, who was charged alongside former President Donald Trump and
17 others in Willis' sprawling racketeering indictment, is seeking to
remove his state charges to federal court, arguing that his charged
conduct fell under his official federal duties as chief of staff and
seeking to dismiss the charges. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, an
Obama appointee overseeing Meadows' request, asked both parties to
submit arguments on whether a single overt act out of dozens cited in
the indictment is enough to require removal of the charges to federal
court.
Willis' team in a filing on Thursday argued that Meadows' alleged
actions were part of a greater sweeping scheme to aid Trump's
post-election crusade and that even one official should not be enough
to boot his case to federal court.
"The circumstances of this case are easily distinguishable,"
prosecutors wrote. "The defendant conspired not for any purpose
related to his duties as chief of staff, but to transform Mr. Trump
from a losing political candidate into a winning one, no matter what
the outcome of the election had actually been."
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/01/hes-in-big-trouble-experts-say-mark-meadows-goose-is-cooked-after-new-fani-willis-filing/
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