Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is asking a federal court to dismiss Georgia state criminal charges against him stemming from former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election, according to a court document.
Paywalled but isn’t he trying to get his charges heard in Federal Court instead of State? If that’s what this is (“dismissing charges” only in that they are being dismissed in one venue to be heard in a different venue) it’s a pretty misleading headline.
State and federal charges aren’t the same thing. He can be charged at the federal level for federal crimes and at the state level for state crimes.
He is simultaneously trying to get the charges dismissed and if that’s not successful then get them moved to a federal court.
Since he broke laws at both the state and federal level, but he is only been charged at the state level, The federal indictment would need to happen before it would even be possible to change the venue or argue jurisdictional conflicts.