The Fulton County prosecutor fired back when one of the defendants in former President Trump’s case tried to move the charges out of the county.
Here is the detail of the news.
Willis responds to pressure from Meadows to drop charges against Fulton
Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is fighting former White House chief of staff Mark Meadow’s attempt to move Fulton’s charges to federal court.
Willis recently filed an indictment against Meadow and 18 others for their alleged involvement in former President Donald Trump’s overturning lawsuit. 2020 presidential election in the state.
Fulton prosecutors say Meadows violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity while on the job.
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In a new 22-page court filing released Wednesday, Willis and one of his deputies, Donald Wakeford, wrote: “An assessment of the actions referred to in the indictment clearly show that all were intended to ‘interfere with or affect” the presidential election in Georgia and elsewhere in order to somehow transform Mr. Trump from a failed candidate into an elected candidate.
The documents add: “The activities are precisely of the type that other courts have already determined to be ‘unofficial’ and therefore beyond the color of the defendant’s office, and he cannot cite any presidential authority that would include these activities within its mandate. official functions.
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The new court document came after Meadow and his co-defendant Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, asked the court to transfer the Fulton County criminal charges to federal court in a bid to delay the arrest. .
He argued that his case deserved to go to federal court because the charges against him in Willis’ indictment occurred while he was working as the White House chief of staff.
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His attorneys wrote, “Nothing Mr. Meadows is accused of doing in the indictment is per se criminal: holding meetings in the Oval Office, contacting state officials on behalf of of the President, visit a state government building and establish a phone call for the President. .
You would expect a chief of staff to the President of the United States to do that sort of thing. And they have far less to do with the interests of state law than, say, the murder charges that have been successfully dismissed.”
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However, the federal judge denied the request to move the case. In his ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones wrote, “The plain language of the statute to suppress a criminal prosecution does not support an injunction or temporary stay restraining the prosecutor’s execution. District Willis of the arrest warrant against Meadows. The judge set the hearing date for August 28, 2023.
On Tuesday, Willis fired back, writing in a federal court filing: “Lawfully arresting the defendant on criminal charges after allowing him sufficient time to negotiate a surrender does not deprive the defendant of the opportunity to seek deportation and no Nor does it affect the jurisdiction of this Court. consider withdrawal. »
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There appears to be a legal battle this week between attorneys for Meadow and Willis in which his legal team is adamant about delaying the arrest and extending the time until his case moves to Federal Court in order to that he doesn’t have to travel to the county while Willis tries to pursue every legal means to have the charges against Meadow heard in the county.
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