Federal Court Sends Former Trump Chief of Staff Case Back to Georgia

Published on February 28, 2024

Mark Meadows, codefendant and former chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, will have to go to trial in Georgia. A court on Feb. 28 rejected his last appeal to remove his case to federal court. Mr. Meadows was one of 18 indicted alongside the former president for efforts to challenge the 2020 election results, which Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleged constituted a criminal racketeering enterprise. Four of the codefendants have since accepted plea bargains, and the district attorney has asked for an August trial date, but none has been set. The prosecutors are embroiled in a motion to disqualify that alleges Ms. Willis had an improper relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed to lead the case and benefited financially from the relationship....

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