Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis subpoenaed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and a lead investigator of 2020 election matters to appear at a hearing for Mark Meadows next week, according to court documents filed Thursday.
The hearing, which will take place in federal court in Atlanta on Monday, will center around a request from Meadows, former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, to move Willis's case against him from state to federal court.Meadows is one of 19 co-defendants named in Willis's indictment of Trump and is facing two felony charges, including racketeering, for his alleged illegal efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Willis's demand that Raffensperger and Frances Watson, the former chief investigator in the secretary of state's office, appear at Meadows's hearing comes after she subpoenaed two Trump attorneys, Kurt Hilbert and Alex Kaufman, to also appear for it. The subpoenas shed some light on how Willis plans to argue that Meadows's case should remain under her purview within Fulton County.Her indictment details interactions between Meadows and Raffensperger's office, including an infamous phone call Meadows was part of on Jan. 2, 2021, during which Trump asked the secretary to"find 11,780 votes" to put him in a position to win Georgia's election, which he narrowly lost.
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