Judge refuses to hand over White House documents Mark Meadows thinks will prove innocence

Former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows has failed in his effort to obtain a large number of documents from the National Archives that he said would prove his innocence in the Georgia election case.

Meadows had attempted to get hold of emails, text messages and other documents from his time in the White House that he believed would help prove his innocence in the election case against him in Georgia.

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But a federal judge told him the attempt had been "flawed from the start."

Lawyers for the National Archives had argued in court that Meadows' request for documents and information is “unreasonably vague,” “extensive in scope” and irrelevant to the Georgia case.

Among Meadows' demands was: “Any and all official records . . . created or received by Mark R. Meadows” from March 31, 2020, to January 20, 2021.

Meadows had been charged in Fulton County along with 18 others, including Donald Trump. for an alleged conspiracy to change the 2020 election result to ensure Trump won the state of Georgia.

According to Politico, Meadows had brought the case to a Washington, D.C. court but it was transferred to the federal court, which knocked down the request. While a Georgia judge had previousl given Meadows the go-ahead to try and obtain the records, the federal judge it was not a state court's decision to make.

“The Court cannot bypass this jurisdictional defect,” said the judge.

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