- A federal judge denied former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ request for an emergency stay of a ruling that sent his Georgia election interference case back to state court.
- Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff, had asked U.S. District Judge Steve Jones to pause his ruling pending an appeal.
- Meadows has also asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit for an emergency stay, arguing that Jones “egregiously erred.”
That’s why we should all demand trials and never plea. Over any offense, no matter how small.
The system can’t afford it, for one, but the backlog it would create would effectively shut the whole thing down.
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” -Thoreau