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Trump’s White House chief of staff argues he acted in capacity as federal officer and that case should be moved to federal court. Plus, has humanity finally broken the climate?

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Violating the hatch act, it is whether or not mark meadows was acting within the scope of his federal duties. ultimately, as raffensperger and others testified yesterday, what he was doing was political in nature, not to fulfill a federal function of ensuring free and fair elections, as meadows tried to insinuate yesterday. >> members of the trump white house highlighted the hatch act like it was their job, more often than not, from white house podiums. how surprising was it that meadows took th...

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Reasons. >> chuck, when asked by meadows attorney whether his duties intersected with political matters, meadows said almost everything the president does has a political reaction. and state prosecutors brought up the hatch act. remind us what that is and does it apply here? >> so the hatch act generally, lindsey, prohibits, precludes federal employees from engaging in political work on, sort of on the government dime. you cant campaign, make phone calls, solicit funds, while youre working as a ...

By ShipWreckedCrew Re the Meadows' removal motion in federal court in Atlanta yesterday: Mark Meadows, former chief of staff under the Trump administration, testified for five hours before a court about his role in the 2020 election contests. Mr. Meadows was advancing the theory that he was a f

His official capacity and not in the politics, which is what he argued in court yesterday? >> there are two different perspectives here. one, mark meadows, everything the president told him to do, that was his job and he was acting within the scope of his job, but thats not necessarily the way a judge is going to interpret what he was doing under color of authority. technically, color of authority means the acts that you undertook that were authorized by the statutes or the constitution that giv...

Mark Meadows shocked the legal community when he took the stand in his bid to remove the Georgia indictment against him to federal court.

Is that the strongest argument when michael was just talking about is the president wasnt subject to the hatch act, so if the president tells him to do something that violates the hatch act and because hes not somehow been -- does that mean that he is not responsible for a violation of the hatch act, meaning meadows? thats all circular, it doesnt make sense, and a really does underscore why you should never put a criminal, someone who has been accused of criminal activities like mr. meadows, on ...

Donald Trump’s former chief of staff testified in his own criminal trial and subjected himself to cross-examination, but there may be a method to the madness.