Trump Decides Against Transferring Georgia Election Case to Federal Court

The filing comes three weeks after Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, failed to move his own case out of Fulton to federal court.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Clinton Township, Mich., on Sept. 27, 2023. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, will not seek to move his Georgia election case to federal court, his lawyers said Thursday.

“President Trump now notifies the Court that he will NOT be seeking to remove his case to federal court,” his lawyers said in a court filing in Fulton Superior Court.