Federal Court in Mark Meadows Case Orders Extra Briefing From Attorneys

The federal judge hearing former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s motion to have Georgia racketeering charges related to the 2020 presidential election heard in federal court has ordered attorneys in the case to provide an additional briefing on the state’s racketeering law.

Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows at the White House in Washington, on Oct. 21, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The federal judge hearing former Trump aide Mark Meadows’s motion to have Georgia racketeering charges related to the 2020 presidential election heard in federal court has ordered attorneys in the case to provide an additional briefing on the state’s racketeering law.

The new order was issued Aug. 29 by federal Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia, who was appointed in 2011 by President Barack Obama.