US District Court Judge Steven Jones, an Obama appointee, has denied Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows emergency motions to nullify the Fulton County arrest warrant and to move to move the case to federal court:

Meadows alternatively requests that the Court enjoin District Attorney Fani Willis from enforcing the arrest warrant against him until after the August 28 evidentiary hearing. Doc. No. [17], 9–16. The Court denies this request. While Meadows’s imminent arrest may present an actual injury, there are strong countervailing reasons to not enjoin the state criminal proceedings[.]

Jones simply denied Meadows’ emergency motion to move everything regarding his case to federal court; Meadows can still refile the motion again at a later date under non-emergent circumstances.

Earlier, Jones had also denied a similar request by Meadows’ co-conspirator Jeffrey Clark, who also had attempted to have his arrest delayed or canceled.  Pay attention to the noteworthy shade thrown by Fani Willis’s office in their response to Clark’s impudent demand:

The defendant’s Motion demanded a halt to the State Court proceedings to avert the necessity of his “rushed travel arrangements to fly into Atlanta” to present himself for voluntarily surrender by the August 25 deadline in lieu of the service of an arrest warrant, as numerous of his co-defendants have now done.2 As inconvenient as modern air travel can admittedly be, whatever nuisance involved in the defendant securing a flight to Atlanta within the window provided is self-evidently insufficient justification to invoke this Court’s authority to enjoin a State felony criminal prosecution.