Mark Meadows’ lawyers to argue for moving Georgia election case to federal court

Lawyers for Donald Trump’s onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows are set to argue in court Monday that a federal judge should take over a Georgia criminal case alleging he and the former U.S. president conspired to subvert the 2020 election. The hearing is the first major court battle in the racketeering case in which prosecutors allege Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and 18 of his Republican allies tried to overturn his election loss to Democratic President Joe Biden. Meadows is seeking to move his case to federal court, where he would face a larger and more politically diverse jury pool than in Fulton County, Georgia, the Atlanta-area Democratic stronghold where he was indicted.