Mark Meadows on Monday filed an emergency motion to pause his prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia, just days after a federal judge rejected his bid to move to federal court.
The former Trump administration chief of staff was denied his bid by U.S. District Judge Steve Jones on Friday to remove his state criminal proceedings to federal court. Meadows's counsel argues the charges relate to his role as a White House official.Meadows has already filed a notice of appeal to the 11th Circuit, teeing up a likely precedent-setting Supreme Court fight over his request that has been hotly debated among legal scholars.
"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." Jones on Friday found that Meadows's act of arranging the Jan. 2, 2021, call where Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to"find" the votes needed to win the state amounted to"campaign-related political activity" and that Meadows's participation in that call was"political in nature," and thus did not fall"under color" of his official duties.
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