It took less than a day after a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia indicted former president Donald Trump, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and 17 other defendants in a sprawling racketeering case for one of them to invoke a rarely used federal law in an attempt to move the case into federal court.
On 15 August, attorneys for Mr Meadows, who is charged with a single racketeering count and another sole count of solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, quickly filed papers in federal court to “remove” the case from Fulton County Superior Court.
