Judge rules against Mark Mead­ows in mov­ing his Ari­zona fake elec­tors case to fed­er­al court

For­mer White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s “fake elec­tors” case must remain in Ari­zona, a judge ruled on Mon­day. 
Mead­ows is one of 18 peo­ple charged by a state grand jury in an alleged fake elec­tor scheme to help for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump over­turn the results of the 2020 elec­tion in Ari­zona and oth­er swing states. While he is not being charged as a fake elec­tor in Ari­zona, pros­e­cu­tors allege Mead­ows worked with oth­er Trump cam­paign mem­bers to sub­mit names of fake elec­tors from Ari­zona.  
Meadows’s legal team tried to move the case to fed­er­al court, argu­ing his actions were tak­en when he was a fed­er­al offi­cial work­ing as Trump’s chief of staff. His attor­neys cit­ed immu­ni­ty under the suprema­cy clause of the Con­sti­tu­tion, which says fed­er­al law ranks high­er than state law. 
“Noth­ing Mr. Mead­ows is alleged in the indict­ment to have done is crim­i­nal per se. Rather, it con­sists of alle­ga­tions that he received (and o …