Meadows is seeking to fight the charges in federal court rather than in state court.
Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows took the witness stand at a hearing Monday to deny two of the allegations made against him in a Georgia indictment accusing him of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election.this month along with former President Donald Trump and 17 other people, is seeking to fight the charges in federal court rather than in state court.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who used Georgia's racketeering law to bring the case, alleges that Trump, Meadows and the others participated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to try to keep the Republican president in power illegally even after his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Willis argues that Meadows' actions were political in nature and not performed as part of his official duties.
Willis' team argues that the actions in question were meant solely to keep Trump in office. These actions were explicitly political in nature and are illegal under the Hatch Act, which restricts partisan political activity by federal employees, they wrote in a response to Meadows' notice of removal to federal court. They believe the case should remain in Fulton County Superior Court.
Willis' team subpoenaed several witnesses to appear at Monday's hearing, including Raffensperger, Watson and two lawyers who did work for Trump in Georgia in the aftermath of the election but who were not named in the indictment.
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