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Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s onetime chief of staff, argued in a, made public over the weekend, that federal court was the appropriate venue for the two election charges brought against him by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Meadows’s petition to the Supreme Court comes after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Meadows’s request in December. “That decision defies statutory text, context, history, and common sense,” Meadows’s attorneys wrote in their Supreme Court petition. Meadows’s use of the decision, which the Supreme Court made in response to Trump’s election case in Washington, D.C., is the latest instance of the ruling’s reverberating effects. Trump has already it in Florida and New York, and some of Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia, such as Meadows, were expected to make use of it, as well.
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