Mark Meadows Asks Supreme Court To Intervene Over His Georgia Indictment

Mark Meadows, who served as White House chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, has asked the Supreme Court to step in after he was indicted in Georgia as part of a effort to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.

Meadows was one of 19 people, including Trump, charged in the state last August in a sweeping racketeering case with the alleged goal of keeping the then-president in power. He served in the White House from March 2020 through the general election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden, and was a key figure as Trump and his allies clung to power.

Meadows, who has pleaded not guilty, had previously attempted to move the case from state to federal court, claiming he was acting in his official capacity and should be allowed to transfer the case out of Georgia. But a federal appeals court unanimously rejected his effort in December, upholding a lower court decision that found he had not proved his alleged crimes were related to his White House duties.

“Just as immunity protection for former officers is critical to ensuring that current and future officers are not deterred from enthusiastic service, so too is the promise of a federal forum in which to litigate that defense,” his attorneys wrote in a petition dated Friday. “A White House Chief of Staff facing criminal charges based on actions relating to his work for the President of the United States should not be a close call.”

Meadows’ attorneys were blistering in their filing to the Supreme Court this weekend, pointing directly to the body’s recent decision granting Trump broad immunity for his actions while in office. They added the lower courts were “egregiously wrong” in their rulings.

“That decision makes clear,” the attorneys wrote of the Trump