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Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows will appear in an Atlanta courtroom Monday to ask a judge to move his case for alleged election interference from a state court in Georgia to federal court.
Mark Meadows, onetime chief of staff for former President Donald Trump, will be the first to make the case to a judge on Monday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's charges against him in Georgia should be removed from state to federal court.
Mr. Meadows, a former White House chief of staff, told a judge he believed his actions regarding the 2020 election fell within the scope of his job as a federal official.
The former top Trump aide testified that he viewed nearly everything as part of his official duties — an argument he hopes will give him immunity.
U.S. Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled Monday that the trial of former President Donald Trump on charges that he illegally sought to overturn his loss in the 2020 election would begin on March 4, 2024.