Meadows had gone to the Supreme Court in an effort to move the charges out of Georgia courts. He argues the case belongs in federal court because it relates to his duties as a federal official. He pointed to the Supreme Court ruling giving Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution to support his argument.

Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has failed in his bid to move his Georgia 2020 election interference criminal case out of state court and into the potentially friendlier venue of federal court,

The US Supreme Court refused to shift the Georgia election-interference prosecution of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows into federal court, rejecting an appeal from the onetime top aide to Donald Trump.