Two amicus briefs were submitted on Monday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the case The State of Georgia v. Mark R. Meadows. One brief concludes that Meadows’s case is not entitled to removal to federal court. The other brief concludes that Meadows’s request to dismiss his case based on […]
On Friday, September 8, U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones in the Northern District of Georgia ruled against Mark Meadows’s request to have his criminal 2020 election interference case be moved from state court to federal court. Meadows is one of 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, who was criminally charged by Fulton County District Attorney […]
On Monday, federal district court Judge Steve C. Jones held an evidentiary hearing on Mark Meadows’s effort to remove Fulton County, Georgia’s prosecution of him in the Georgia 2020 presidential election interference case from Georgia state court to federal court. Judge Jones requested supplemental briefing on the following issue: “Count 1 of the Indictment (pertaining […]
A new report on Just Security provides, in “Frequently Asked Questions” (FAQ) form, detailed information on the efforts of five defendants to remove their cases to federal court in the Georgia 2020 election interference case brought by Fulton County DA Fani Willis this month, and other general and specific background on the issue of removal. “Defendants bear […]
When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg earlier this year charged former President Donald Trump with falsifying New York business records in the hush money case, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Trump ally and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, ran interference, attempting to investigate and intimidate the prosecutors. Now that Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis has charged the former President with […]
On Monday, August 28, at 10:00 AM EDT, federal district court Judge Steve C. Jones will hold an evidentiary hearing to evaluate a filing by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to remove his case in the Georgia 2020 presidential election interference case from state court to federal court. Meadows is one of 19 defendants […]
A group of eight prominent judges and attorneys who served as high-level appointees in Republican Administrations submitted an amicus brief on Wednesday night in the U.S. District Court For The Northern District Of Georgia, Atlanta division, opposing Mark Meadows’s and Jeffrey Clark’s efforts to remove to federal court the 2020 presidential election interference case brought in Fulton County by District Attorney Fani […]
The following op-ed, by Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.) and Amy Lee Copeland, a criminal defense and appellate attorney in Savannah, Georgia, appeared in The New York Times on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. Read online or below. ________________________ The New York Times | 8/15/2023 Why the Fani Willis Prosecution of Donald Trump Is Indispensable By Norman Eisen and Amy Lee Copeland Mr. […]
This week, former President Donald Trump’s co-lead defense counsel John Lauro laid out a five-part structure of what is expected to be Trump’s defense in the case brought this week by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s expected defense “is not to be taken lightly – even though, after much drama, we expect all five elements […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | August 3, 2023 Jeffrey Clark is presumed to be “Co-Conspirator 4” in the indictment of former President Donald Trump filed this week. Clark will go down as a footnote in history, but had Trump’s scheme to overturn the election succeeded, he might have changed history. In 2020, Clark was serving […]
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