by Terrance Kible
Mark Meadows, former chief of staff in the Trump White House, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to toss out the 2020 election interference case against him.
Meadows argues the Supreme Court’s recent Trump presidential immunity ruling applies to his conduct. This conduct, Meadows argues, was pursuant to his official duties, according to The Washington Post.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, affirming a lower court, rejected this argument seven months ago. The Eleventh Circuit held that Meadows failed to show his conduct was pursuant to his official duties.
Meadows’ Supreme Court petition reportedly criticizes this decision as “egregiously wrong, wholly unprecedented, and exceptionally dangerous.”
The Washington Post reported:
The filing contends the appellate decision was “egregiously wrong, wholly unprecedented, and exceptionally dangerous” and points to the Supreme Court’s recent decision granting Trump immunity for official presidential acts in his federal election interference case as reason for the court to intervene in Meadows’s case. The Washington Post obtained the petition, which was first reported by CNN.
“That decision makes clear that federal immunity fully protects former officers, often requires difficult and fact-intensive judgment calls at the margins, and provides not just a substantive immunity but a use immunity that protects against the use of official acts to try to hold a current or former federal officer liable for unofficial acts,” the filing states. “All of those sensitive disputes plainly belong in federal court.”
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Terrance Kible is a reporter at Just the News.
Photo “Mark Meadows” by Gage Skidmore CC2.0.
