Mark Meadows Begs Court To Protect Him After Losing Bid To Move Case

Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows filed a new motion in court on Monday, begging the courts to protect him while he tries to expedite his appeal to move his Georgia trial to federal court. Meadows was issued a devastating ruling this past Friday smacking down his request, so he is trying to use the appellate system to delay any motions or rulings in the state case. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Things are moving very fast in Georgia with the criminal trials for the 19 co-defendants that Fannie Willis recently indicted. And of course, as I talked about yesterday, last Friday, Mark Meadows was smacked down by a district judge who said that, no, you cannot move your case from state court to federal court because you were basically engaged in extracurricular activities and trying to overturn the election results for Donald Trump does not fall under your official government duties as chief of staff to the president. Well, yesterday Mark Meadows filed an emergency motion with the very same judge and said, judge, you have to stop this. You have to put an immediate stay on this order that you have ruled, you know, not moving me to federal court so that I can immediately appeal it and ask for an expedited appeal, of course, to the 11th circuit.

Now, typically a motion like this would probably not be addressed for a couple days, but within a few hours of Meadows filing this motion, the judge said, all right, fine. I'm now going to entertain your motion. The judge says, so I'm giving Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, 24 hours to respond and then we'll go from there and I'll determine whether or not to put a stay in place as you appeal this correctly determined decision. Now, the judge didn't call it the correctly determined decision. I'm saying that because as I talked about yesterday, the judge's ruling was sound.

But here's a couple things to know about what's going to happen next. Funny Willis will respond. She will obviously say that no, there should not, uh, be a stay in place. He was given his order, he failed to make a compelling argument. He's gonna be with the rest of us. So the reason though, Mark Meadows even wants a stay to begin with is because since he is now pending appeal relegated to the state court, if the state court judge issues any kind of ruling pertaining to any of the defendants, it would apply to Mark Meadows. And once we get down that rabbit hole where these motions do affect Mark Meadows, it could be deemed too late at that point for him to move his case to federal court, even if he wins on appeal. So that's why he's saying, judge, you gotta protect me from any motions coming from the judge while I appeal this thing to the 11th circuit. It's all very stupid. And it underscores a bigger point here. The appellate system, and we have seen this from, from Donald Trump and all of his allies is absolutely being abused here in the United States. The appellate courts are not there just because you got off because the courts didn't rule in your favor. You're only supposed to be appealing a decision

When you believe and may have evidence to support that this decision by the lower courts was made incorrectly or that there were some kind of impropriety taking place in the lower court trial that the appellate court needs to rule on and either send it back down or overturn whatever the lower court said. Meadows doesn't have any of those things. Meadows is just hurt that he didn't win. So he is gonna go to the appellate court, the 11th circuit, where he says he is gonna ask for an expedited trial or or hearing, and he is gonna get the same, same ruling 'cause he's gonna make the same arguments 'cause he doesn't have an argument. And he's doing all of this to delay, delay, delay, delay.