Meadows, who was Trump's White House chief of staff, argues that the charges against him pertain to actions he took while he was serving in the Trump administration.
In a 14-page filing, Meadows argued that the“Mr. Meadows has the right to remove this matter. The conduct giving rise to the charges in the indictment all occurred during his tenure and as part of his service as Chief of Staff," Meadows' lawyers wrote.that allows U.S. officers to remove civil actions or criminal prosecutions in state court for alleged actions taken"under color" of their offices to U.S. District Court.
According to the indictment, Meadows, Trump and other unindicted co-conspirators"unlawfully solicited, requested, and importuned" Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021.urging Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed to claim victory in the state over Democrat Joe Biden. The 98-page indictment lays out a series of alleged schemes to overturn election results, including pressuring state officials to change the results, accessing voting machines and data in rural Coffee County, and harassing election worker Ruby Freeman to falsely admit to election crimes she did not commit.
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