in other words who is not acting as a campaign volunteer after hours on a lincolns, but rather was executing the orders of don trump. so we will see what happens, he may have a plausible case for getting it removed. it is interesting that he once to get out of state court and fly back to the safety of the federalist society packed federal courts. in any event, i believed in the 11th circuit where the court is considering another rico action, which was donald trump s rico lawsuit against hillary clinton, which was thrown out of the district court level, which is now being considered by the 11th court. but we are getting so much donald trump litigation and prosecution where he has other defendant, the plaintiffs might argue different sides on the same legal issue in different cases that are appearing in
long ago that says if a state tries to prosecute a federal officer for what they did in their official duties, you can get that case out of the state court and take it to federal court. doesn t mean the case is over. it means you get a federal judge as your forum and a federal jury which would be better for meadows than a georgia state court. the problem is that won t help most of the other defendants in that georgia indictment because most of those were not federal officers. they were working for the campaign. this is even tougher yet. president trump, at times he s acting as the president of the united states and enforcing the laws. he would be the officer pro texted by this. what about when president trump is running as a candidate? i expect fani willis will say my indictment of the campaign and trump and all of these people is about trump when he s acting as a private citizen. if that is true and the courts agree, then trump won t be able
president? you know this case, more so than some of the others, i think when i read through the indictment, as i saw a lot of potential legal attacks. before even get to the merits. the use of the rico statute, in this instance is unique. and, i think that they re gonna have some problems, especially if they give it over to the federal court. because rico has an element of continuity to it. where you have an organization, an enterprise that is engaging in a series of racketeering acts, as part of a continuing course of conduct. like a mafia family, or an organized crime game it seems that. but here, it s all focused on a singular event, which is the election. and so i think that, when you do bring it over to a federal court, and they start to apply some of the federal rico stands to it, that s going to become problematic. also reading through the pattern of racketeering activity, i think there are ways that you can attack that, really on a motion to dismiss on the structural side, be
former president. i mean he has to, under supreme court precedent, he has to be able to show not only that he was an officer of the court, but that he has a federal defense. i think are some questioning whether or not the defense, if he predicates that on a claim of federal immunity, i think it s questionable as to whether or not federal immunity would cover his actions, as described in this indictment. clearly, he was not acting under any federal authority, it was likely far beyond the scope of his duties as president, in meddling with the election in georgia. so, it s not a guaranteed win for him, but they will absolutely make the motion, and they could succeed. and perhaps maybe the more surprising thing is that meadows was the first person to do it, and not trump s attorneys. tim, just broadly speaking, the charges that that he is facing here in georgia, putting aside the issue of which venue it is tried in. if your his attorney, which you are not anymore, for a number of reaso
it is a candidate for office, it is an individual who is running for office. now, this question of moving it to federal court requires shim to be acting in his capacity as president. now, where the president ends and the man begins, the candidate begins, and the president ends, is blurry, in a court is gonna have to sort that out. by just something it s entirely cut and blot dry jamie, i want to give you a moment here for rudy giuliani, who was all over this indictment as well. he is being charged in a rico statute, which he basically pioneered. and then on top of that, we hear today that he is basically broke. these legal fees are piling up. what has happened to the man once known as america s mayor? he also said today that he hasn t changed, that he is still the same man. i interviewed rudy, as we called him when he was mayor, many times. if rudy has not changed in all these years, we didn t know him very well back then. look, i have several close friends who worked with him, h