Judge Denies Meadows’s Request to Transfer Georgia Racketeering Case to Federal Court

A federal judge rejected the motion of Mark Meadows, chief of staff in the Trump White House, to have his state racketeering case transferred to federal court.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 23, 2020. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

A federal judge rejected former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s motion to hear state racketeering charges from Georgia in federal court.

The ruling is a victory for Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, who initiated the racketeering prosecution.