should be the case. under the law any federal employee may remove a criminal case to federal court if they are being prosecuted for things that they did in the course of their official duties. emphasis on the word official, of course. we will talk about what exactly the official duties of a chief of staff really are and do they include getting involved in, say, state election? but wit. there is more. you have to demonstrate that you have some kind of a federal defense. let me tell you, i didn t do it ain t gonna cut it. there has to be some federal law a judge can look at to have that aha, he is right, says it right there kind of moment. now, one law that is being mentioned is, well, the supremacy clause. the one that tells you the federal law trumps the states. in other words, if you have got a federal law that says i can do what i did, a state court shouldn t be hearing a case about it. you stay in your lane.
there has to be some federal def defense. one law that s being mentioned is the supremacy clause, one that tells you the federal law trumps the state s. if you ve got a federal law saying i cano what i did, a state court shouldn t be hearing a case about it. you stay in your line. i ll tell you what, i ll stay in mine. but then again, just because you re a federal employee, it doesn t mean that everything you do is untouchable in state courts. holding the office itself does not hold the prosecutor at bay. no. meadows has to prove that what he was doing was actually part of his official duties and that it was authorized by federal law. and he s got to show that he didn t do more than what was necessary and proper to do his job. now, the allegations in georgia say that he was interfering with the certification of a state s election. will the court believe that that