Former Department of Justice official, Jeffrey Clark, lost his bid on Friday. He was requested to move his case to federal court. Clark was a former co-defendant of former President Donald Trump.
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The federal court ordered that there was no jurisdiction over Clark’s case according to U.S District Steve Jones. The news broke just before Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall announced to be the first co-defendant to plead guilty.
In a report by the Washington Examiner, Clark, former Department of Justice and one of 18 co-defendants was charged with one count of racketeering and one count of an attempt of false statements on a letter he allegedly tried to send to Georgia officials in 2020 that mistakenly represented that the Department of Justice had an important role on the outcome of the election in Georgia.
The former Department of Justice and Trump-appointed assistant attorney general said that he was just acting in his official capacity as the Department of Justice when the letter was drafted. However, Jones said that the act did not fall within the scope of job responsibilities.
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In a report by CBS News, Jones’s Decision make a big impact for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis opposed the former Department of Justice, Clark on his move saying that he had no authority in his official capacity to write a letter in question.
The co-defendants in the case may profit from federal removal. In contrast to Fulton County, a bigger and marginally more Trump-friendly pool of potential jurors would be chosen in the U.S. district court. The trial would not be televised in accordance with federal court regulations, and a federal judge would also preside over the case.
Since the decision for Clark’s case remains in Fulton County Superior Court, Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows also lost his federal removal bidding this month. Meadows appealed the decision of the case and it was passed down before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Trump stated in a notice on Thursday that he will actually maintain his case in Fulton County, contrary to certain expectations that he would also try to have it transferred to federal court.
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