Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows could beat his ex-boss to the steps of the Supreme Court over a bid to remove his Georgia criminal racketeering case to federal court, according to legal experts.
Meadows is waiting on U.S. District Judge Steve Jones's decision over whether he can remove his case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from state to federal court. The former chief of staff contends that the actions surrounding his charges, including establishing calls and contacting state officials, were part of his official duties.
Jones himself told Meadows, lawyers, and reporters who were there during an Aug. 28 evidentiary hearing that his case would likely establish precedent for future cases, citing a lack of case law to guide his pending decision. The former chief of staff's first of two counts under the indictment surrounds a violation of Georgia's racketeering law and contains a number of overt acts attributed to Meadows.
Willis wants to have the case sent back to state court, and she's adamant about trying all of the defendants together in the state forum. Meadows is looking for a more favorable jury pool in federal court that is removed from the Democratic-leaning Fulton County, which also would shield his case from being publicly televised due to the more relaxed state court rules.
"So [Trump], too, is going to try to come under this statute, and there are very, very few precedents on it," Dershowitz said during the Sean Spicer Show on Monday.
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