Meadows is facing two criminal counts, accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
to argue that his case should be tried in federal court, given that his actions tied to the indictment fell under his responsibilities as chief of staff., however, that Meadows' actions fell outside the requirements of a White House chief of staff.
Former White House chief of staff during the Trump administration Mark Meadows is seen on November 14, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Trump's legal team may need to come up with a more"creative argument" in defending him after Meadows was handed a legal loss trying to move his case to federal court, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.
"Well, it smells political because it is political and the judge knew it and the judge was very cautious about that," Steele said of Friday's ruling."He understands the political environment his court is operating in. He understands the political players in front of him as defendants, and so he wanted to be methodical. He wanted to be clear in his approach to this, so that yes, there will be some political backlash as there always is.
Steele continued:"But at least you can look at his effort to give Mark Meadows every deference, every opportunity to lay out and make the claim that he was acting as an official of the federal government of the United States when he was on those phone calls. It was very clear he was not, so the judge did it right. Mark Meadows, recognizing the peril he is in, was trying to get it to a more favorable venue for him, getting it out of Washington, D.C. The judge would have none of it.
When asked if Trump's legal team should re-evaluate their strategy after Meadows' ruling, Emeritus professor of law at Harvard Law School
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