Alleged Trump co-conspirator Mark Meadows, the former White House Chief of Staff, has filed a motion to move the RICO trial involving multi-indicted former President and seventeen other defendants to a federal court, ABC News reports. A federal rule allows for a case to move from state to federal court if the defendant is supposedly acting “under color” of an official position.
Defense attorneys believe Trump and his henchmen stand a better shot with a jury pool that is less Democratic than Idaho. Fulton County is far too liberal and… um… ethnic to be fair to Republicans.
(UPDATE 8:50 p.m. ET) Thanks to an appearance from journalist Anna Bower on Chris Hayes’s MSNBC show: The request to change venue to a federal court means a physical change of venue down the Atlanta street to the federal court building. Georgia law will still apply; Fulton Co. DA Fani Willis and her team will still prosecute; and the sentence will be done via Georgia law, meaning it is not directly pardonable by the governor. Major difference is that largely federal filing procedures are followed, and a federal jury pool rules will apply.