Federal judge Steve Jones denied indicted coconspirator Jeffrey Clark’s effort to have his Fulton County, Georgia racketeering case removed to federal court, claiming that he was acting as a federal official while he tried to disenfranchise millions of Georgia voters. According to Jones’s opinion, Clark was not working in his official capacity as Assistant Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department as he tried to undermine the certified elections from Georgia to illegally reinstall Donald Trump for a second term in the White House.
“Accordingly, the Court concludes that Clark has not met his burden to show that he was acting within the scope of his federal office as AAG of the Civil Division in drafting the December 28 letter,” Jones wrote. “The letter pertained to election fraud and election interference concerns that were outside the gamut of his federal office. Consequently, Clark has not shown the required nexus for federal officer removal.”