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The 11th Circuit Court docket of Appeals rejected an try by way of Mark Meadows to cast off the Georgia legal case against him to federal court docket.

Meadows, who served as former President Donald Trump’s remaining chief-of-team of workers, used to be indicted in August with Trump and 17 others in reference to their try to subvert the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump falsely claimed the election was rigged against him and undertook several measures in a useless try and overturn the results in Georgia and different states he misplaced. The previous president leaned on Republican officials in a few states to get them to reverse the implications. Throughout a now-infamous cellphone call, Trump entreated Georgia’s secretary of state to “in finding” him 11,780 votes, which would have made him the winner of the state. Meadows was on the decision on the time.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges that Trump and Meadows tried to coerce the secretary of state into violating his oath of administrative center. Willis is prosecuting them and their fellow codefendants underneath Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Firms Act (RICO).

Both have pleaded no longer guilty.

Attorneys for Meadows argued that he was simply finishing up his tasks as the president’s chief of team of workers, and subsequently his case must be removed to federal court. But for the second time, a federal court docket rejected that argument.

“At backside, regardless of the chief of team of workers’s position with admire to state election administration, that function does no longer embody altering valid election results in want of a specific candidate,” Chief Judge William Pryor wrote in a 47-page opinion issued on Monday by means of a 3-choose panel. “So there’s no ‘casual connection’ between Meadows’s ‘authentic authority’ and his alleged participation within the conspiracy.”

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