South Carolina Supreme Courtroom takes Mark Meadows enchantment

South Carolina’s Supreme Courtroom on Monday agreed to listen to an enchantment by former Trump White Home chief of employees Mark Meadows to dam a Georgia grand jury subpoena demanding his testimony in a probe of doable legal interference within the 2020 presidential election.

The Supreme Courtroom’s motion got here days after Meadows’ lawyer requested it to take the case, and virtually a month after a South Carolina decide ordered Meadows to adjust to the subpoena from the Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury.

As of now, Meadows is scheduled to testify in an Atlanta courthouse earlier than that panel on Nov. 30. However that may not occur given the South Carolina Supreme Courtroom’s motion.

The grand jury is investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to persuade Georgia election officers to reverse his 2020 loss within the state to President Joe Biden.

Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman, listened in on a Jan. 2, 2021, name between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, throughout which Trump pressured Raffensperger to “discover sufficient votes” to reverse Biden’s win. The decision occurred 4 days earlier than a joint session of Congress started assembly to certify Biden’s victory within the Electoral Faculty.

Georgia authorities needed to ask a South Carolina decide to compel Meadows’ compliance with the subpoena as a result of he lives in South Carolina and never Georgia.

A spokesman for the Fulton County District Legal professional’s Workplace, which is presenting proof to the grand jury, had no speedy touch upon the Supreme Courtroom’s motion.

Meadows’ lawyer James Bannister, who didn’t return a request for remark, argued in his software to the Supreme Courtroom that the subpoena must be blocked as a result of it violated his consumer’s constitutional proper to privateness. Bannister additionally argued that the subpoena “incorrectly holds that Mr. Meadows is a cloth witness to the Fulton County investigation.”

Meadows additionally is protected against being compelled to journey out of state to testify below South Carolina legislation, Bannister wrote.

The lawyer additionally argued that the particular goal grand jury can’t be thought-about a “true” grand jury below state legislation as a result of it doesn’t challenge indictments or conduct procedures in secrecy.