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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, charged along with 18 others in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, is in court Monday to try to have his trial moved from state to federal court. Among other charges, the indictment cites Meadows role in the infamous Jan. 2, 2021, phone call then-President Donald Trump made to Georgia ...

The all-day hearing on former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ request to move the Georgia election interference case to federal court in Atlanta has concluded.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who used Georgia's racketeering law to bring the case, alleges that Trump, Meadows and 17 others participated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to try to keep the Republican president in power illegally even after his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Limitations. but the hatch act says that you can only do certain things, even as a chief of staff. so when he tries to make the argument that he is acting under the law and thats how he gets into federal court, he cannot make that argument because he is violating the law when he is working for donald trump. >> so, mark meadows on the witness stand today, a mistake? or a strategy? >> it certainly makes me want to cringe as a defense attorney, he was subject to cross-examination, he was on the sta...

ATLANTA (AP) — Mark Meadows testified in court Monday that actions detailed in a sweeping indictment that accuses him of participating in an illegal conspirac

ATLANTA -- Mark Meadows testified in court Monday that actions detailed in a sweeping indictment that accuses him of participating in an illegal conspiracy to overturn then-President Donald Trumps 2020 election loss were all part of his job as White House chief of staff.

Amplifying Atlanta

The former White House chief of staff requested to have his case transferred from state to federal court, which could be key in the future of the racketeering trial against him and 18 other people, including the ex-president

ATLANTA (AP) — Mark Meadows testified in court Monday that actions detailed in a sweeping indictment that accuses him of participating in an illegal conspirac

“Meadows in some respects has even more criminal exposure than Trump,” law professor warns