Attorneys for Mark Meadows, the ex-North Carolina congressman who served as Donald Trump’s final White House chief of staff, have filed an emergency motion seeking a federal court order barring Fulton County, Georgia, authorities from arresting him while a request to move the racketeering and election interference case against him from state court is pending.
Mr Meadows, like Mr Trump and the other defendants in the sprawling Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last week, is required to surrender for booking at the Fulton County jail by noon on Friday, nearly two weeks after he and his co-defendants were indicted.
