Judge denies Mark Meadows' effort to move Arizona case to federal court
A federal judge said that Trump’s former White House chief of staff missed a deadline to file the request to move his state-level case.
A federal judge Monday rejected an effort by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his Arizona indictment to federal court in a case focused on efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 electoral defeat.
U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi said Meadows missed a deadline to file his request and "has failed to show good cause that might permit the Court to excuse the untimeliness."
Tuchi said Meadows had "failed to demonstrate the offenses charged in the state’s prosecution relate to his" official duties when he was Trump's chief of staff.
An attorney for Meadows, who has pleaded not guilty, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night.
In April, a state grand jury in Arizona indicted Meadows and 17 other defendants, including former Trump aides Rudy Giuliani, Boris Epshteyn and 11 so-called fake electors over efforts to overturn Trump's election loss in the state in 2020.
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