In Mark Meadows’ attempt to move his Georgia state prosecution to federal court, he points to the calendar.
In Mark Meadows’ attempt to move his Georgia state prosecution to federal court, he points to the calendar. The legal team for Trump’s onetime White House chief of staff wrote in a Monday filing:
Absent a stay, the State will continue seeking to try Meadows 42 days from now on October 23, 2023. If the State gets its way, Meadows could be forced to go to trial — and could be convicted and incarcerated — before the standard timeline for a federal appeal would play out.
Meadows’ motion was directed to U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, who ruled Friday that Meadows can’t move his racketeering case out of state court. As Meadows appeals that ruling to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, he has, in the meantime, asked Jones to pause the ruling.
