Mark Meadows fails in bid to move Georgia election case to federal court <img src="https://www.reuters.com/resizer/TSAbH0taUB-UXEkOmXJS0r_Kb84=/1920x0/filters:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/EL2U5X654FMMBB4QS2MTC2KBEU.jpg" alt="White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in Washington">White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to reporters following a television interview, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago Charges against Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows involving efforts to reverse the 2020 U.S. election results will not be tried in federal court, a sign that similar bids by the Republican former president and his co-defendants to move the criminal case to a more favorable venue will fail. Friday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Steve Jones denying a bid by Meadows to move his case from Georgia state court to federal court gave an early win to Fulton County prosecutors, who in August https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-advisers-charged-georgia-2020-election-overthrow-scheme-2023-08-15/ he faces are part of a political plot aimed at preventing him from retaking the White House in next year's election. Trump faces criminal charges in four cases. He is also under indictment in Florida for his handling of classified documents after leaving office, in Washington for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and in New York over hush money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election. Trump has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty in those cases as well. Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Jack Queen; additional reporting by Costas Pitas; Editing by Dan Wallis, Will Dunham and Noeleen Walder https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mark-meadows-fails-bid-move-georgia-election-case-federal-court-2023-09-08/