Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ bid to move Georgia state criminal charges tied to the alleged effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election to a federal court faced a skeptical federal appeals court Friday.
Meadows is asking a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to overturn a federal district judge’s ruling that the case should remain in state court, where Meadows, former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others face charges connected to the effort to overturn the election.
Meadows argued the actions laid out in the indictment, including helping Trump coordinate communications with state officials to overturn election results, fell within his official duties and federal law mandates the case proceed in federal court.
