Trump-appointed judge cites basic ‘defect’ while ending Mark Meadows’ lawsuit against Jack Smith and US Archivist in search of Georgia RICO defense boost

Mark Meadows, Jack Smith

Left: Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House in October 2020 while serving as chief of staff for then President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File). Right: Special counsel Jack Smith turns from the podium after speaking about a Trump indictment in August 2023 (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).

Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows tried to sue the head of the National Archives (NARA) and special counsel Jack Smith to get his hands on records that may have aided his defense in the 2020 election-focused Georgia RICO case, but that effort came to an end Tuesday due to a basic “jurisdictional defect.”

U.S. Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee sitting in Washington, D.C., wrote that he simply could not “reach the merits” of Meadows’ case based he lacked “subject-matter jurisdiction” — that is, he didn’t have the power to hear it.

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