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Hugo Lowell in Atlanta

Appeals court skeptical of Meadows’ bid to move Georgia election case

MarkMeadows in Washington DC in March 2020.
Mark Meadows in Washington DC in March 2020. Photograph: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images

A federal appeals court on Friday appeared skeptical of former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ attempt to transfer his 2020 election interference case in Georgia to federal court, expressing doubt that he was acting as a federal official in trying to reverse Donald Trump’s defeat.

The court also questioned, in a particularly ominous development for Meadows, whether he was even entitled to remove his case from state to federal court given he was no longer a federal official.

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