Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows' request to move Georgia election subversion case to federal court

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 9:52 AM EST, Tue November 12, 2024


CNN — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Mark Meadows move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court, effectively barring the former chief of staff during Donald Trump’s first term from claiming immunity from those charges.

Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman who served as White House chief of staff late in Trump’s term, was indicted last year in Fulton County, Georgia, on racketeering and other charges tied to phone calls and meetings in which Trump leaned on state officials to change the outcome of the 2020 election in the state. Meadows has pleaded not guilty and Trump won election to a second term last week. Meadows wanted to have his case heard in federal – rather than state – court, where he would be able to raise immunity claims.

The Atlanta-based 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the Georgia prosecution against Meadows should continue in state court, concluding that former federal officials are not covered by that statute “removing” state cases against government officials to federal court. Importantly, Chief Judge William Pryor’s opinion also said that “the events giving rise to this criminal action were not related Meadows’s official duties.”

Though Meadows is seeking a different form of immunity than the Supreme Court granted Trump earlier this year, his appeal nevertheless relied heavily on the court’s divisive decision from July. In that decision, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority relied in part on the idea that the president’s power would be hampered if he faced prosecution for his official actions as soon as he ended his term.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/mark-meadows-supreme-court/index.html

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Well, that's surprising, but I guess he's not very high up on trump's totem pole

[gab13by13]

2. Meadows was involved in everything

He was the go between TSF and the Willard Hotel, kept TSF's hands clean.

Meadows helped pack up the classified documents that went to Mar-el-Loco.

The jurisdiction only matters if there is a trial.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. Also, Cassidy Hutchinson witnessed him burning documents

around the time the Trump admin received the Mueller source documents. Highly suspicious.

[Traildogbob]

4. Top of the

Pardon list. An administration position awaits him.
This mutherfucker has ran free from all justice long enough to get it all shit canned, and get back on of payroll.
What. Fucking country.

[prodigitalson]

5. Nope... state crime, no potus pardon possible

[Traildogbob]

7. Ya really think rules

Will mean a damn thing with this herd of clowns he is putting together, and all judgeships coming.
Meadows will just delay delay until the Supremacy trump courts make state crime immune from Trump world. In dictatorships and authoritarian regimes, state have no say. They will be under one rule.
He will never do a day, he has been trumps most loyal.
And the asshole is from my district, still a hero here, followed by Cawthorn.
We keep saying no way this or that will happen, because of rule and laws. Not in a Lawless regime.
All rules are gonna be mute except ones that dear leader will allow. How many states or provinces or whatever smaller portions of Russia, Korea, China or Hungary get to over rule their trump? Not sure any of those have states, but however they are segmented.
Ya think ANY state laws will apply to Trump.
All Worst case scenario’s, but we are seeing the new laws steaming ahead.
I hope you are right, Meadows is one of the top traitorous shits of many, and Blue people right here, which are few, would love to have him meet Justice.
Hope I’m wrong. After Rachel last night, all I can see is hell coming, and no laws for the lawless.
And the loyalists get positions of power.
God we hate Meadows here, the hand full of blue
People that will need to hide from Miller ICE.

[prodigitalson]

9. SCOTUS just literally refused to help him

[Traildogbob]

10. Again, I hope you are right

But I don’t see Trump allowing him to go down.
He has way too much info. This slimy weasel ass regime have escaped every law broken.
With that in mind, he may get a fast trip down from the top of trump tower, to close up that potential loop of damaging information.
Remember the ever growing photos on Racheal’s show in 2017 of people leaving the regime?
This time it will be pictures of daily victims from windows.
The bottom of trump tower will fill with bodies of Trump enemies like the Canyon near Dutton Ranch, that dare stand up to Yellowstone Oligarch, John.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. "But I don't see Trump allowing him to go down."

Cohen had been thrown under the bus and was his literal "fixer", and ended up in the slammer twice. Allen Weisselberg also went to prison twice for him.

Meadows is nothing more than the John Kelly of Reince Prebisuses.

[Traildogbob]

14. John Kelly of the Prebisuses.

That’s a good one. But Cohen talked, and got the bus treatment. Allen refused to and now is free. Bannon refused to and is now free and more dangerous than ever.
I would love some justice for Meadows, but there are so many big fish that will walk. I have no belief we see any justice coming.
And Cannon added to the supremacy court, with potentially two more just as bad.
J6 boots will be freed. And be put into this Administration, with all that loyalty. The suits will still be in Government making laws, and getting Paid.
Hope I am totally wrong, but my faith has been destroyed.
Not at all a Happy Veterans day for me. Not the country I hoped my service would end up being.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. "Allen refused to and now is free."

Oh Allen "talked" alright - he perjured himself, which is why he was sent back to prison (so they know what the facts are).

Meadows is not just indicted in GA but also in AZ, so although Kemp might finagle something in GA (since they are already screwing with Fani Willis and her case), AZ is a different story altogether.

Arizona attorney general says she won’t drop Trump fake electors case

Richard Luscombe
Mon 11 Nov 2024 09.29 EST


Allies of Donald Trump who were charged in Arizona for illegally trying to overturn the 2020 election can still expect to face justice despite his return to the White House, the state’s attorney general has said.

Kris Mayes told MSNBC on Sunday that she had “no intention” of dropping the criminal case against defendants including the former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Christina Bobb, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and senior officials of the Arizona Republican party such as the former chair Kelli Ward and state senators Anthony Kern and Jake Hoffman.

A grand jury in April indicted 18 people in a “fake electors” scheme that sought to falsely declare Trump the winner in the crucial swing state instead of Joe Biden. Most pleaded not guilty in May to felony charges of fraud, forgery and conspiracy.

(snip)

[Traildogbob]

17. Thank you

Excellent information.

[SKKY]

6. That's probably why he was trying to so hard to get this to a Federal court....

...nope, no pardon here. But, I'm hugely surprised the USC denied this.

[Native]

11. No probably about it

[jaxexpat]

12. So what? If he goes to jail he'll just have an Epsteinesque accident.

No muss, no fuss. Trump's justice marches on.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Meadows had lost this arguement a good number of times

[Joe_Gadway]

18. At least former Chiefs of Staff are not above the law!

I guess that's something.

[The Wandering Harper]

19. this gives me a nugget of hope

just saw Brian Tyler Cohen's report on it, and hoped I'd see it in here too.
(I've been avoiding LBN for a bit for sanity sake but Brian Tyler Cohen is often reassuring to me)
Some of the R's on the court have surprised me in a good way in recent years.
I'm too scared yet to go further on that thought though.
Hope is essential,
but too much can be counterproductive