The trouble for Meadows is that he made a concession that may both doom his efforts to ensure that the case moves to federal court and give prosecutors a weapon to use against him, regardless of where his trial is held: Meadows’s lawyers said in their briefs that all the allegations against him in the indictment “concern unquestionably political activity.”
“The second he said that he shot himself, if not in the foot, maybe in the upper shoulder close to his heart,” Zelin said.
That’s because that line seems to be an admission that he was acting on behalf of the Trump campaign, not the White House. That would suggest that he wasn’t covered by the supremacy clause, because participating in campaign work is not part of a White House chief of staff’s duties. And that’s given prosecutors an opening to argue that there’s therefore no reason to move the case to federal court.
LOL, dude just gave the prosecution a slam dunk.
This is why “NOT MY JOB” is a very important phrase to learn. and why for federal employees to recognize that they don’t actually work for the president.
The best people everyone. The best people.
He, along with the others, are fawked, kid.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Though Meadows has not laid out any other reasons for wanting to move his trial, it is possible his team believes a federal jury would be more sympathetic to his case than one based in Fulton County, which tends to favor Democrats in elections.
She’s already encountered a hiccup in that respect, given that Kenneth Chesebro, a former member of Trump’s legal team who advanced a plan to install fake electors in Georgia, has been allowed a speedy trial scheduled for the end of October, before any other defendants in the case will be tried.
That would suggest that he wasn’t covered by the supremacy clause, because participating in campaign work is not part of a White House chief of staff’s duties.
To get a conviction, she has to show that Trump was the ringleader of a criminal enterprise — involving attorneys, staffers, and local officials allegedly working with the former president — to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Besides those advantages for Trump, however, Willis still will be able to make the same legal arguments that she would have in Georgia court and the difference in the jury pools isn’t massive, said John C. Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School.
What’s more, a drawn-out prosecution was always likely in this case given its size and the fact that the federal charges against Trump for his involvement in the January 6, 2021 insurrection will likely take precedence.
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