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Trump-era Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark cannot move his Georgia election subversion case from state to federal court, a judge ruled Friday.
That we can view, again, whether it's fair or not, and so many state prosecutions against individual defendants we may have differing views about, but congress has no place to question the individual judgment of an individual prosecutor in an individual case. there might be circumstances where congress could look at how are federal dollars being spent at this district attorney's office throughout a year, over many, many cases. there might be circumstances where congress has a place to ask, are civil rights being violated systematically? it is inappropriate for a sitting congressperson to send ...
Federal officials, federal policy should -- trump -- not a good word -- state policies. they should have immunity from state prosecutions. and the cases have gone in both directions. so, i mean, this is what they had to do. and we will see what the judge does. >> a federal judge has ordered -- judge nancy gertner -- to fulton county da -- to respond to clark summer gen z requests by tomorrow afternoon. >> right. if he -- the federal judge did is to say, i can't, on the face of the papers, just looking at the papers, answer the question of whether these allegations are pursuant to your federal
Because the state case would be presumably dismiss. and, then it would become a federal action. but i think, clearly the importance of the state prosecutions, are investigation that took us to the supreme court twice, to get the records from donald trump, my cisa now d. a. willis. these are important backstops. and i'll tell you why is an example. we star on vesta geisha and into the trump investigation finances and the like. , and the u.s. attorney in new york, who is a wonderful person, their office asked me to stand out, with our case. i felt i should, because i feel we need -- between thes...
Co-conspirators including trump lawyer and former new york mayor rudy giuliani. the georgia case marking the fourth indictment of the ex-president since the end of march. two federal cases and two state prosecutions. mr. trump denying the latest accusations and blasting district attorney fani willis, who has given trump and the other defendants ten days to surrender to authorities. blayne alexander leads us off tonight from atlanta. >> reporter: with his status as a georgia defendant sealed, tonight former president trump is on defense, slamming what he calls another partisan prosecution again...