Former President Donald Trump may be able to extricate himself from charges in Georgia related to his efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Like his former chief-of-staff Mark Meadows, the 45th president can ask a federal court to “remove” the case from the state court on the grounds that it targets his actions as a federal official, explained Leslie McAdoo Gordon, a career defense attorney.
Federal officials can’t be targeted under state laws for actions they took in their official capacity. This is part of the federalist system in which certain issues are reserved for states and others for the federal government to handle, Ms. Gordon explained in a series of posts on X and a subsequent interview with The Epoch Times.
