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and sar aa murray. i asked a constitutional professor what the significance of this is and he said reading a judge s comments from afar is that it looks like the judge is on the fence here. meadows case has always been slightly different from the other co-defendants. what are you hearing? meadows is in a different position. he was white house chief of staff, that is a federal position. and what the judge is essentially saying is if i find that one of these acts outlined in the indictment, one of the things that he allegedly did as part of the conspiracy had to do with his role as a federal official, is that enough for him to succeed and to be able to move this to federal court. or does that not meet the threshold. he s asking meadows as well as fulton county district attorney s office to reply in these briefs by thursday evening. from a timing perspective, we ve been trying to figure out when will the judge sort this out. that tells us it will be at least friday is the soonest where
lawyers watching all of this? they are watching it closely. attorneys for trump and other defendants were in the courthouse yesterday. they want to know if someone like mark meadows is able to do this, that bodes well for former president trump, may bode well for jeffrey crash lark who was e justice department at that time. and they grilled meadows about that famous or infamous i should say trump/raffensperger phone call in which you have the former president, at the time the current president, literally saying on tape find me the votes to overturn the election here. did that give the cross-examination give any view as to what the prosecution strategy is here? because the other thing trump s lawyers are watching is how exactly are they going to go at this case. it certainly shed light on what meadows defense will be. he is saying i did all this in the capacity of my job and basically everything that i did even if it wasn t related to trump s official policy or the