‘Not a get-out-of-state-court-free card’: Mark Meadows’ failure to remove Georgia RICO case to federal court comes back to haunt Jeffrey Clark, too

Jeffrey Clark

Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark speaks next to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen at a news conference on Oct. 21, 2020 (Photo by Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images).

A three-judge panel appointed by Republican and Democratic presidents agreed Thursday that former Trump administration DOJ official Jeffrey Clark cannot remove his Georgia RICO prosecution to federal court, just as the appellate court ruled in the case of Mark Meadows. This time, one of the 11th Circuit judges noted in a concurrence that the removal statute is “not a get-out-of-state-court-free card.”

The relatively brief per curiam ruling from Chief U.S. Circuit Judge William Pryor, a George W. Bush appointee, U.S. Circuit Judge Britt Grant, a Donald Trump appointee, and U.S. Circuit Judge Robin Rosenbaum, a Barack Obama appointee, has affirmed and declined to disturb a September 2023 decision against Clark.

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