“Mr. Meadows is entitled to remove this action to federal court because the charges against him plausibly give rise to a federal defense based on his role at all relevant times as the White House Chief of Staff to the President of the United States,” attorneys for Meadows wrote in the Tuesday filing in the Northern District of Georgia.
“Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President’s behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President. One would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do these sorts of things,” the filing states.
“This is precisely the kind of state interference in a federal official’s duties that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits.”
Is this the “I was only driving the getaway car” defense?
That or “only following orders.”
“States’ rights” - Republicans
The real play here is to keep it off TV as someone says below and to expand the jury pool beyond Fulton County. One only has to look at an electoral map to know why.
Brookings did a long but very readable analysis about why this won’t work: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/11122022_GA_Investigation_Report_SecondEdition.pdf
I was thinking “long analysis” might be 20-30 pages, but holy crap! A 300 page PDF, from November before we even knew what the charges were…
Haha yes it’s overall very long, but the section on this specific question isn’t too long, just 3 pages.
“look guys, I was just the covfefe boy”
he isnt charged with interfering in a federal process, why would it go to them? he interfered in a states ability to certify its own voting, and breaking that states laws. literally nothing to do with his job as a federal asshole.
