Meadows had gone to the Supreme Court in an effort to move the charges out of Georgia courts. He argues the case belongs in federal court because it relates to his duties as a federal official. He pointed to the Supreme Court ruling giving Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution to support his argument.

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Mark Meadows move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court, effectively barring the former chief of staff during Donald Trump’s first term from claiming immunity from those charges.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was charged with two counts in the case brought by Fulton County prosecutors over alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

Mark Meadows had asked the justices to overturn a lower-court ruling rejecting his claims that the case should be moved out of state court in Georgia.

Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has failed in his bid to move his Georgia 2020 election interference criminal case out of state court and into the potentially friendlier venue of federal court,

The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ appeal seeking to move to federal court his Georgia criminal charges related to efforts to overturn

Supreme Court rejects push to move Georgia case against ex-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to federal court WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court rejects push to move Georgia case against ex-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to federal court.

The Supreme Court has rejected a petition from Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff during the first Trump administration, to move his 2020 election subversion case to federal court.