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Michael Sainato

Trump ally asks supreme court to move Georgia election case to federal court

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Mark Meadows attends Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint meeting of Congress in Washington DC on 24 July 2024. Photograph: Julia Nikhinson/AP

Attorneys for the White House chief of staff during Donald Trump’s presidency, Mark Meadows, have asked the US supreme court to move the Georgia 2020 election interference case to federal court.

The petition cites the recent supreme court ruling that granted Trump immunity for any acts deemed official – which came as part of a 2020 election subversion case in Washington DC’s federal courthouse. Meadows’s attorneys claimed that a federal forum was needed to address their client’s actions as the White House chief of staff.

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