The former chief of staff of Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, pleaded not guilty this third fair to accusations of integrating a scheme to reverse the electoral results of 2020 in Georgia and will not appear in court in Atlanta this week.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has scheduled arraignment hearings for Wednesday for Meadows, former President Donald Trump and the 17 other people indicted last month in the same case.
By early Tuesday afternoon, all of the defendants had already filed documents pleading their innocence and waiving their right to a court hearing.
During the arraignment hearing, defendants have the right to have the charges against them read and to present a formal defense.
Trump pleaded not guilty to this process last Thursday and said that he would miss the next hearing, and the rest of the defendants followed the same procedure during the last days.
Meadows and four other defendants are seeking to transfer their charges to federal court.
Trump and 18 other defendants were indicted earlier this month in a 41-count lawsuit described as an alleged scheme to subvert the will of Georgia voters who chose Democrat Joe Biden over the Republican nominee in the presidential election. of 2020.
For this case, Trump traveled to Georgia to turn himself in at the Fulton County jail, where he became the first former president whose photographic portrait was taken by judicial authorities.
The case, brought under Georgia’s Corrupt Organizations Act, is a long process whose logistics at trial will likely be complicated and involve many witnesses from all parties.
Trump, who appears in the polls as the favorite for the Republican Party primaries, sees these lawsuits as a politically motivated attempt to prevent him from returning to the White Caste.
Source: TSF
