Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows asked a federal court to intervene after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis rejected his request to delay his surrender.
The former top Trump aide, who played a key role in the former president's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia, filed an emergency motion to U.S. District Court Judge Steven Jones on Tuesday seeking to have his case moved from state to federal court. Politico reported that Meadows and his legal team purported that the charges brought against him in Willis' indictment are related to his time in a federal role, which should make him "immune" from local prosecution. "Absent this Court's intervention, Mr. Meadows will be denied the protection from arrest that federal law affords former federal officials," Meadows' attorneys wrote to the judge.
