Mark Meadows Begs to Get Arizona Election Case Kicked to Federal Court

Mark Meadows, once Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, is asking that the election subversion case against him in Arizona be jettisoned to federal court, a move he has repeatedly—and unsuccessfully—attempted in Georgia, where he is facing separate but similar charges.

Meadows’ attorneys laid out their strategy in a court filing released to the public on Wednesday, saying they would seek for his charges to be dismissed after getting his charges punted to U.S. District Court. They argued that the removal was justified because his alleged actions, while not “criminal per se,” were undertaken while he was working as a federal official.

“The conduct giving rise to the charges in the indictment all occurred during his tenure and as part of his service as White House Chief of Staff,” they said, adding later that charging Meadows at the state level was “precisely the kind of state interference in a federal official’s duties that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits.”

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