Appeals court shoots down Mark Meadows’ bid to derail Georgia racketeering case

The 3-0 decision was authored by the court’s conservative chief judge, William Pryor. Had the agreed with Meadows and transferred the charges to federal court, it could have upended the case against Trump and all of the defendants, causing significant delays and even a potential ruling that the matter could be dismissed altogether because of its relationship to Trump’s authority as president. Instead, the panel ruled that a law permitting federal officials to transfer state-level charges into federal court applies only to current government officials, not former ones like Meadows....