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Former Trump White Home chief of workers Mark Meadows has requested a federal appeals court docket to rethink its determination rejecting his bid to maneuver his Georgia election interference felony case to federal court docket.
A 3-judge panel of the eleventh US Circuit Courtroom of Appeals unanimously ruled last month that Meadows couldn’t transfer his case to federal court docket as a result of the conduct at situation within the indictment in opposition to him was unrelated to his official duties as chief of workers.
Now Meadows is asking the appeals court docket to rehear the case en banc, that means the case could be heard by the total court docket. Ought to the court docket decline to rehear the case, Meadows may enchantment final month’s determination to the US Supreme Courtroom.
“The panel’s determination is profoundly unsuitable – it defies textual content, precedent, and customary sense – and profoundly consequential,” attorneys for Meadows wrote in a submitting Tuesday night.
“Whereas courts battle with whether or not tobacco corporations and well being insurers can take away, a White Home Chief of Employees dealing with a neighborhood prosecutor’s indictment based mostly on actions taken within the West Wing shouldn’t be a detailed name,” the attorneys wrote.
Shifting the case to federal court docket may enable Meadows to get the costs dismissed altogether by invoking federal immunity prolonged to sure people who’re prosecuted or sued for conduct tied to their US authorities roles.