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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ariana Baio

Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark cannot avoid arrest if they miss Friday deadline, judge rules

Olivier DOULIERY / AFP; Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Mark Meadows, the former Trump White House chief of staff, and Jeffery Clark, a Trump-era Justice Department official, will still be arrested even if they don’t surrender themselves to Georgia officials by Friday, a federal judge ruled.

US District Judge Steve Jones denied emergency motion requests from Mr Meadows and Mr Clark to try and delay the court proceedings regarding their alleged involvement in Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference in Fulton County from state court to federal.

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