A federal decide denied former White Home chief of workers Mark Meadows’ request for an emergency keep of a ruling that despatched his Georgia election interference case again to state court docket, a court docket submitting confirmed Wednesday.

Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s closing chief of workers, had requested U.S. District Decide Steve Jones to pause his ruling pending an attraction in a better court docket.

However Jones sided with Atlanta District Lawyer Fani Willis, who on Tuesday urged the decide to reject Meadows’ newest transfer in his ongoing push to try to transfer his case to federal court docket.

Meadows “has not proven he’s entitled to an emergency keep,” Jones dominated in an order dated Tuesday and made public Wednesday morning on the docket in U.S. District Court docket in Atlanta.

Jones on Friday had denied Meadows’ preliminary bid to maneuver the sweeping Georgia RICO case out of Fulton County and into federal court docket.

Meadows has additionally requested the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the eleventh Circuit to grant an emergency keep, arguing that Jones “egregiously erred” when he refused to take away the case to federal court docket.

The appeals court docket has not but dominated on Meadows’ request. Willis on Wednesday urged that court docket to reject Meadows’ request for a keep.

Meadows, argued Willis, is looking for a profit that’s geared toward defending federal authority towards interference by the state. However “the proof demonstrates that the precise reverse has taken place: a former federal official strayed outdoors his authority to aim to have an effect on the result of a state s presidential election,” she wrote.

Willis’ 41-count indictment in Fulton County Superior Court docket expenses Trump, Meadows and 17 different co-defendants as a part of an unlawful conspiracy to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia’s 2020 election.

Meadows is charged with one depend every of violating Georgia’s racketeering regulation and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer. Meadows, Trump and their co-defendants have all pleaded not responsible.

A minimum of 4 different defendants are attempting to maneuver their instances out of Fulton County, which encompasses Atlanta and voted overwhelmingly for Biden in 2020.

Meadows’ attorneys have argued within the federal district and appellate courts that he may face “irreparable hurt” as a result of his case may go to trial and result in his conviction and incarceration earlier than his attraction performs out.

Two different co-defendants have their trials set for late October, and Meadows’ attorneys stated the state prosecutors will search the identical schedule for him.

However in his newest ruling, Jones wrote that Meadows’ arguments provided nothing “to persuade this Court docket that its choice was incorrect.”

And Meadows failed to indicate “something greater than a risk of irreparable hurt in absence of a keep,” which isn’t enough, Jones wrote.

The decide added, “No trial date has been set for Meadows, and he admits that it’s not assured his trial can be in October.”