A federal judge denied former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ request to have his Georgia election case moving to federal court on Friday. Meadows must fight the charges in state court.
Meadows was charged with violating Georgia’s RICO Act and solicitation of a violation of oath by a public officer. He turned himself in on Aug. 24 to authorities in Fulton County.
In the indictment, authorities said Meadows tried to get Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to change the state’s election results to favor Trump. President Joe Biden won the state in 2020 by a 11,779-vote margin,Meadows organized a phone call between Raffensperger and Trump in January 2021 in which the former president urged him to “find” enough votes to overturn his election loss,
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