This is Michael Popoc Legal AF.

Mark Meadows, former chief of staff for Donald Trump,

likes to lose, and now he's lost again

in his efforts to try to have the entirety

of all 12-plus judges of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ruling by the chief judge of the 11th Circuit,

William Pryor, a very rock-ribbed conservative Republican who ruled against Mark Meadows, along with two other

members of the panel back in December. Mark Meadows didn't like that. He wanted, I guess, to lose

in front of the entire 11th Circuit hoping that somebody was going to find that the chief judge of the 11th Circuit a Republican Bill Pryor had made a mistake. Well, nobody did. Nobody on the 11th

Circuit wanted to take up this issue at all and now it stays where it is with a

loss for Mark Meadows and an inability to take his case

over to federal court unless it until the Supreme Court rules otherwise.

Now this was a scathing decision by the original panel, what we call the merits panel led by Chief Judge Bill

Pryor. He did not mince words and he actually made what we think is new law that now the entirety of the 11th Circuit supports,

which is that you can't use federal officer removal statute, that statute.

If you are a former federal officer,

well, there's no dispute that Mark Meadows isn't currently

the chief of staff for anybody.

At best, he was the chief of staff for Donald Trump up to and including Jan 6th and slightly beyond.

So the new law the 11th Circuit made and we sort of, you know, described that a legal

AF as a bombshell because in all the years that the

1442 a federal officer removal provision have been in place no court had ever ruled that it didn't

apply to former, former officers.

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