The 11th Circuit is weighing in on Mark Meadows bid to try and get his case removed from

Fannie Willis's jurisdiction, her home court in Georgia, to federal court, and they are on an

expedited briefing schedule that we're going to talk about here in a duet with my legal AF

co-anchor Michael Popok. So let's talk about a little bit where we are and how we got to where we

are today. So if you remember, Mark Meadows wanted to remove his case to federal court under 28 USC

1442 and 1455, which basically sets forth the procedure on how you get your case moved from state court

to federal court. And that requires three things. You have to be a federal officer, you have to be

working under the authority of your job description, and you have to have a plausible federal

defense. And it's the defendant's burden. So it was Mark Meadows's burden to get his case and to show

that he had those three elements and that he met those three elements. There was a hearing before

Judge Jones. The hearing was held on August 28th and Meadows testified. And he tried to say that

everything was under his job description as the chief of staff. Remember, he was the chief of staff

for Donald Trump at the end, maybe for eight months. And he said, you know, look, my job description,

there's nothing that the chief of staff doesn't do. So everything was in my job description.

The just the law here and when a court will assert federal jurisdiction, there's a strong

policy against federal interference because of federalism. But there is this carve out in the law

with those three elements. And what Judge Jones said was, okay, are you a federal officer? Do you

meet number one Mark Meadows? Yes, the state conceded that too, by the way, Fannie Willis says, yeah,

of course, he was a federal officer. Number two, was it relating to any act under the color of

such office? And what Judge Jones ruled was the scope of this is a mixed question of fact and

law. It's an analysis that has to be done where you apply the facts to the law. So first,

you have to define what the acts were, ascertain the scope of the federal role and analyze whether

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