Trump’s Battle to Move the Atlanta Trial Is Just Beginning
Now that former President Donald Trump has been indicted in Atlanta, the countdown is on to see how long it’ll take him to try dragging the case into federal court—a tactic that, even if it doesn’t work, could still buy him time as he seeks to delay his trial.
Less than 24 hours after the new indictment was unsealed, one of Trump’s co-defendants in the case—former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows—tried to do just that Tuesday afternoon, arguing that the charges against him pertained to his official White House duties.
Meadows’ lawyers cited a law that allows federal officers to move state prosecutions to a federal district court as long as they’re acting “under color” of their office.