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The Supreme Court is about to make a major decision that would affect Donald Trump's co-defendants in a criminal case.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on Sunday previewed upcoming developments in Donald Trump's criminal cases, including the one he faces in Georgia for alleged election subversion.

According to Vance, former Trump admin White House official Mark Meadows is on track to get more information on a major request in the case, where he is a co-defendant....

The U.S. Supreme Court granted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis an extension until Sept. 30 to address an appeal by Donald Trump's former chief of staff.

Mark Meadows reached out to Georgia state officials and even attempted to break into the counting for Fulton County ballots after the 2020 election. He was charged for his involvement, along with 18 others, including Donald Trump, in a sprawling racketeering case.

Willis filed her lawsuit a year ago last week. It stalled after a Trump ally alleged impropriety because Willis dated one of the lawyers later hired. ...

Out of the four states where former President Donald Trump's advisors and inner circle are facing criminal charges for their alleged roles in the scheme to overturn the 2020 election, a new report singles out Arizona as perhaps the toughest jurisdiction for the defendants.

A Friday report by Politico's Kyle Cheney and Betsy Woodruff Swan described how the Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 defendants in the so-called "fake elector" scheme was given plenty of leeway to pursue any line of inquiry against any defendant, and went even further than prosecutors expected. In the end, jurors indicted 18 people on multiple felony counts, including former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, senior advisor Boris Epshteyn and far-right election lawyer John Eastman (author of the infamous six-page "Eastman Memo"). Trump himself is an unindicted co-conspirator in the charging documents.

Some of the indictments were a surprise even for prosecutors. Politico reported that the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) told Trump attorneys Christina Bobb and Jenna Ellis that they were not targets of the investigation, only for Bobb and Ellis to be included among the 18 defendants....

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes confirmed this week that Mark Meadows — who served as chief of staff in former President Donald Trump's White House — has been officially served on nine felony charges related to her office's ongoing fake electors investigation.

Legal news website Law & Crime reported Friday that the charges against Meadows have now been made public after it was previously reported that he and 17 others were the targets of a massive criminal probe. Meadows' attorney, George Terwilliger, called the indictment a "blatantly political and politicized accusation," and said the charges "will be contested and defeated." The ex-president has not been indicted, but has been confirmed to be an unindicted co-conspirator according to investigators.

"In Arizona, and the United States, the people elected Joseph Biden as President on November 3, 2020,” the indictment read, stating that “defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency” in order to reelect Trump “against the will of Arizona’s voters.”...

The notion was once unthinkable.

Now, with Donald Trump tethered to a New York City courtroom as the first U.S. president to stand trial on criminal charges, it’s entirely conceivable: Trump could be running for president, or even serving as commander in chief, from behind bars.

Two overriding factors contribute to this bizarre reality....

Donald Trump's wake is littered with the fallen of those who pledged fealty.

That is the metaphor that Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, conjured during an interview on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlin Collins.

"Look at how Mr. Trump has conducted himself through his business career and also his political career," she said. "I almost relate it to bodies around him, but he takes out everybody who is loyal to him because it's all about his personal gain and what he can gain from those people." ...