The Daily Beast reports:
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal court to intervene in moving his deadline to surrender in the Georgia election RICO indictment.
Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who is one of 18 co-defendants indicted alongside Donald Trump in a racketeering case in Georgia, also asked a judge Tuesday to grant an emergency stay in the case, whining that he didn’t have enough time to get down to Atlanta to surrender ahead of a Friday deadline.
In Clark’s motion, he argued that he wished to avoid “the choice of making rushed travel arrangements to fly into Atlanta or instead risking being labeled a fugitive.”
Read the full article. Clark, like Meadows did last week, has filed a separate motion seeking to move his case to federal court.
UPDATE: In his motion for an emergency stay of the Fulton County prosecution, Jeff CLARK says he wants to avoid
“the choice of making rushed travel arrangements to fly into Atlanta or instead risking being labeled a fugitive”He wants a decision by 5pmhttps://t.co/vw9cwXJzDg pic.twitter.com/sEzoG8TYpI
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 22, 2023
UPDATE: The judge handling efforts by Trump’s codefendants to remove their cases to federal court gives Fani Willis until tomorrow at 3pm to respond to Jeff Clark’s motion to stay the proceedings. He won’t permit Clark to reply. https://t.co/hbhMk5cbMR pic.twitter.com/73fnkYfyo9
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 22, 2023
