In a brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court, Fulton County DA Fani Willis urges the nation's top court to decline Mark Meadows' request to transfer his trial for election tampering to a federal court.

After the tumultuous 2020 presidential election, Meadows served as Trump's chief of staff in the Oval Office, as Newsweek reported.

Trump and his associates allegedly conspired to reverse Georgia's election results in a manner reminiscent of organized crime, with Meadows being one of eighteen co-defendants indicted by Willis.

Joe Biden became the first Democrat to win Georgia—or any deep Southern state—in a general election since Bill Clinton in 1992, and he became president as a result of that election.

Case History

Meadows requested a transfer of his case from Fulton County Superior Court to a federal court in July, and the United States Supreme Court granted his request.

According to Meadows' attorneys, they requested the change so that their client may assert his right to immunity.

Following the decision by the United States Supreme Court that granted Trump partial immunity in the federal election subversion prosecution, Meadows made the request.

As the Georgia Court of Appeals deliberates on the ethical charges leveled against Willis in connection with her now-acknowledged affair with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade, the Georgia case has come to a halt.

Willis' Case

In her efforts to bring charges against Trump and his associates for allegedly trying to sway the outcome of Georgia's 2020 presidential election, Willis has encountered multiple obstacles in the past few weeks.

Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County Superior Court recently dropped both accusations that Willis had brought against Trump.

Afterwards, in an investigation into suspected tampering with the state's 2020 election, the Georgia Prosecuting Attorney's Council chose not to press charges against Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones.

Another Take

According to Pete Skandalakis, the head of the Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys Council, Jones wanted to certify Trump's victory as an alternate elector.

That choice was also made public on the same day that Willis allegedly refused to answer a subpoena from a state senate committee looking into her role in the indictment against Trump.

A judge in Fulton County Superior Court criticized Willis's office last week for the postponement of an open records request about her historic indictment that was submitted in January.