Fani Willis smacks down Mark Meadows on appeal: 'Failed to meet his low burden'

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis argued former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows should have his election interference case tried in state court.

In a filing on Monday, Willis told a federal court that Meadows was appealing to have his case moved to federal court after he "failed to meet his low burden."

"Following a full evidentiary hearing, and having failed to meet his low burden before the federal district court for the Northern District of Georgia, Appellant Mark Randall Meadows now asks this Court to apply a jurisdiction designed to insulate federal authority from state interference to a case concerning precisely the opposite: Appellant and his co-defendants engaged in activities designed to accomplish federal meddling in matters of state authority," Monday's filing stated.

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Willis claimed Meadows could "point to no law, no constitutional provision, and no lawful duty which authorized him to take the actions he did, and his testimony at the evidentiary hearing in this case underscored the case against his removal rather than for it."

Meadows has been charged for allegedly participating in a conspiracy to undermine the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. He claims his case should be moved from state court because he acted in his official capacity when he pushed to overturn the election.

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"As the record demonstrates, there is no authority anywhere for the President or his Chief of Staff to insert themselves into the electoral processes of the State of Georgia meaning actions were neither necessary nor proper," Willis' filing said.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones previously ruled against moving Meadows' case to federal court.