Mark Meadows ordered to testify in Trump investigation - POLITICO

Attorneys for Meadows and a spokeswoman for Willis did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The five-member court’s determination was conscionable 3 paragraphs long. It cited the “exigent circumstances involved” but did not spell into item astir the dispute.

Willis sought Meadows’ grounds successful September arsenic portion of her expansive probe into efforts by Trump and his allies to disrupt the predetermination process successful Georgia, including his propulsion for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” capable votes to overturn Joe Biden’s triumph successful the state.

The combat implicit the Meadows’ subpoena coiled up earlier the South Carolina courts nether procedures galore states person agreed connected to enforce tribunal orders for grounds issued by courts successful different state. To compel grounds from out-of-state residents, Willis indispensable archetypal get the support of section courts. Meadows is simply a nonmigratory of South Carolina.

Courts successful New York and Florida person likewise upheld efforts by Willis to get grounds from non-Georgia residents, including Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and erstwhile nationalist information advisor Mike Flynn.

Willis’ expansive assemblage has sought grounds from a slew of high-ranking figures successful Trump’s orbit, peculiarly those astir intimately associated with his bid to subvert the results of the 2020 election. Among the witnesses she’s pursued: attorneys John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Boris Epshteyn and Kenneth Chesebro. She besides precocious obtained grounds from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who appeared aft the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the mode for Willis to question him.

Willis has besides probed Trump’s allies successful Georgia who signed documents claiming to beryllium the state’s morganatic statesmanlike electors arsenic portion of a broader program by the Trump run to disrupt the transportation of powerfulness connected Jan. 6, 2021.

But Meadows is the astir captious fig successful her probe to beryllium ordered to appear. In summation to his salient relation successful Trump’s orbit during the weeks starring up to Jan. 6, Meadows traveled to Georgia successful the midst of the state’s post-election audit and joined Trump connected his Jan. 2, 2021 telephone telephone with Raffensperger.

Meadows had argued to a South Carolina region tribunal that his quality earlier the expansive assemblage was barred by enforcement privilege, but the authorities courts rejected that argument.