Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark had both pleaded with the judge to prohibit District Attorney Fani Willis from arresting them by a Friday deadline.
Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark had both pleaded with the judge to prohibit District Attorney Fani Willis from arresting them by a Friday deadline.
Federal court only changes the venue and jury pool, it doesn’t change the charges which are still state crimes.
The only effective difference would be it wouldn’t be televised.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4165326-why-trump-allies-are-seeking-to-move-their-cases-from-georgia-to-federal-court/
"But if any of the defendants are looking for a presidential pardon by moving the Georgia case to federal court, experts say that will be an unlikely advantage because they would still be charged and tried on state charges, which are not eligible.
“What a federal court is going to have to do is it’s going to have to enforce substantive state law,” Carter said. “And so they’d still remain the same state charges, they’d still be presumably in state custody if they were to be convicted, and it would mean that the president couldn’t pardon, because the president’s pardon power only applies to the federal system.”"
TIL. I thought that if they moved to federal court, DOJ would have to try them for the equivalent federal crimes. And, of course, Trump could pardon all of them if he wins again.
That’s the plan. Hope that Trump gets re-elected and he Parsons them. They know they are screwed.
Doesn’t work that way, state charges are state charges.
The only thing moving to federal court does is remove the cameras and MAYBE get a more favorable jury pool.
See my link and quote ^^ up there! ^^