have been a bunch legally today. a whole bunch. one of them is mark meadows. mark meadows, the ex chief of staff, of course, he has been subpoenaed in the criminal investigation in the county of georgia, where the da there is investigating election meddling. he basically tried to get out of it by going to the south carolina supreme court, which itself is a strange, venue wise, saying it should have to testify. they say, we have reviewed their argument raised by the appellate and find them to be manifestly without merit. basically said, sorry buddy, you have to go testify. what do you make of that? yeah, so my understanding is that he tried to press an executive privilege claim. and executive privilege, as you know, chris, is a separation of powers argument, which might have a colorful claim when you are dealing with a congressional subpoena. it s not going to carry a lot of weight in the grand jury subpoena and not one from a state, especially. i mean, i don t even see the separation
like, that s a ludicrous situation. it s insane. yeah, let me ask you about a few developments because there have been a bunch legally today. a whole bunch. one of them is mark meadows. mark meadows, the ex chief of staff, of course, he has been subpoenaed in the criminal investigation in the county of georgia, where the da there is investigating election meddling. he basically tried to get out of it by going to the south carolina supreme court, which itself is a strange, venue wise, saying it should have to testify. they say, we have reviewed their argument raised by the appellate and find them to be manifestly without merit. basically said, sorry buddy,
executive privilege to get out of his appearance before the grand jury, but the court found that argument to be, quote, manifestly without merit. meadows was a confidant of trump and was present during many moments including trump s infamous call with georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. meadows was originally scheduled to testify yesterday. the new date has not been announced. meadows also planning a subpoena to appear before the january 6 committee. earlier this year, doj declined to charge him with contempt of congress for failing to give the testimony. he did comply with the subpoena in the doj s investigation into the insurrection. other news, the senate has passed landmark legislation to codify medical protections for same-sex and interracial marrges. the respect for marriage act was approved by a vote of 61 to 36. with support from all democrats, as well as develop republicans in the senate. the measure now heads back to