3 more Trump co-defendants seek to move their Georgia election interference cases to federal court
Three of former President Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case will try to have their cases removed to federal court Wednesday. Three of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case will try to have their cases removed to federal court Wednesday. For the third time, a federal judge is set to hear arguments during an evidentiary hearing in Atlanta on the issue of federal removal, this time from David Shafer, Shawn Still and Cathy Latham -- three of Trump's so-called "alternate electors" who were charged in the conspiracy case by Fulton County DA Fani Willis. The three are following in the footsteps of former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark, two federal officials who were charged in the case and have sought to move their cases based on a federal law that calls for the removal of criminal proceedings brought in state court to the federal c...