A federal judge declined to remove Mark Meadows’ Fulton County prosecution to federal court, per an order issued on Friday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1468288
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1468288
I wonder if his lawyer isn’t on the phone with Fani Willis right now.
Time to turn on the Orange SOB.
No cat.
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No sympathy. No empathy. No compassion.
Let him stew.
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The standard is that if what he was doing was part of his job as a Federal employee, the case should be removed to Federal court. As chief of staff, Meadows had an incredibly broad range of what was part of his job.
There’s just one little problem. The Hatch Act makes it illegal for Federal employees to campaign while being paid by the government. If they’re going to do any political activity, they have to clock out, use a non-governmental phone, non-governmental computer and such.
When there’s a law that says it’s illegal for you to do any political activity, it’s really really hard to say the political activity was part of your job.
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Looks like I’m having a heaping helping of schadenfreude for dessert tonight.
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He knows Georgia State prison isn’t going to be so comfortable as a federal prison.
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As Joe Bob Briggs, drive-in movie critic of Grapevine, Texas, used to say:
“Victory over communism!”
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Thank goodness that the judge saw plainly that no federal official has a legitimate role involving themselves in active support of a political campaign.
Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark need to face additional charges of violating the Hatch Act.
Edit: @dave_mb said it first.
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Joe Bob reviews were gold.
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Meadows’ alleged actions in support of Trump’s election reversal bid didn’t meet the bar for acting as a federal official.
The download to the formal opinion is broken right now, so I’ll just assume that the honorable Judge Steve C. Jones was good enough to cite every single TPM commenter who made that exact same argument last week.
I will say it’s weird how nobody seems to think that helping TRUMP steal the election is properly considered an official duty.
ETA: @leftcoaster: thanks, friend! 
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Not really that surprising.
Prosecutor: “Did you help coordinate the fake electors?”
Meadows: “Certainly not.”
Prosecutor: "Your honor, I would like to enter into evidence this email, written by Mr Meadows, and reading, “We need to coordinate the fake electors.”
It’s like Stig O’Tracy denying that Dinsdale ever nailed his head to the floor. I think Stig is probably a pretty good measure of just how intelligent Meadows is.
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Try this
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I am fine if he is sentenced to three or four month to Fulton County Jail, with the general population…that ought to be enough punishment.
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…mmm, tasty.
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One of my all time favorites!
He used… sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, pathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire. He was vicious.
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It’s Friday night. Mark better have something to offer.
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Few things can improve a weekend. This is one of those things.
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