Supreme Court Denies Mark Meadows’s Request in 2020 Election Interference Prosecution

The former White House chief of staff argued his efforts to contest the 2020 Georgia election were part of his federal job and thus the case should be moved.

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

The Supreme Court on Nov. 12 turned away former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s request to transfer his election interference case from a Georgia state court to federal court.

The justices issued the court’s new unsigned order without explaining why, as is its custom when rejecting petitions.