Mark Meadows is testifying right now.
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He is trying to get his indictment in GA moved to Federal Court. He needs to show his actions in GA were only because he was acting as a Federal Officer.....he was just doing his job as Trump's Chief of staff in other words.
can find anyone covering it on twitter, just a CNN live blog mixed in with other stuff.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-indictment-2020-election-08-28-23/index.html
Is this being streamed anywhere?
No. It's a federal court hearing. Meadows is trying to use a federal law the move the case. The original law is like from the 1800's and was written so a local cop couldn't arrest a federal officer for doing something like going after the Klan.
Meadows has to show he was acting as part of his job, not as part of the Trump campaign.
Secretary of State Raffensberger testified saying he felt it was a campaign call. A lawyer who was on that call testified saying they are not an employee of the federal government.
Prosecutors are saying this is outside the scope of Mark Meadows federal job but this is campaign related activity. Therefore it cannot be moved to federal court.
Closing arguments are about to happen.
Four other people want to try this move to get their case taken to federal court. People were saying that Mark Meadows actually had the best case of all of them because folks like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell are not employed by the federal government where Mark Meadows did have that role in the executive branch.
Trump is going to try and get his case. Moved to federal court too. I bet.
If for nothing else just to delay the trial
Court just came back from lunch. No phones in the courtroom, so that's why there's not much updates. CNN has two people there. Presumably one sneaks out to write an update, and they switch off.
So the biggest news is that Meadows actually got on the stand. Most legal experts did not think he would because he will have to be cross examined under oath.
He is trying to say this is just my job. Prosectuors are trying to say campaign work is not part of his job.
And 4 other GA defendants are going to try this same thing....get their cases moved to federal court. Folks expect Trump to try it too.
So the other biggest thing so far is
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He has denied a couple of things in the indictment so far and the cross examination has just started.