South Carolina SC agrees to hear Mark Meadows effort to block a subpoena from Georgia DA Willis

[iluvtennis]

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Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney·1h
JUST IN: The South Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to expedite consideration of Mark Meadows effort to block a subpoena from Fulton County, Ga. prosecutors.

Meadows, Flynn appeals complicate timeline for concluding Trump grand jury
https://www.ajc.com/politics/meadows-flynn-appeals-complicate-timeline-for-concluding-trump-grand-jury/VWHDCUIXUZFNNCGILUYN2JDF6A/

Three of the most prominent witnesses who have yet to testify before the Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal meddling in Georgia’s 2020 election appealed judges’ orders this week directing them to appear in Atlanta.

The moves from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and onetime House Speaker Newt Gingrich threaten to push back the timeline for Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis, who is advising the grand jury and hoping to wrap up its work by the end of the calendar year.

On Thursday, the Virginia Court of Appeals granted Gingrich a stay on a lower court’s ruling that directed him to testify before the grand jury on Nov. 29. That means Gingrich, the former Georgia congressman who now lives in McLean, Va., won’t need to appear until after his appeal is resolved.

A day earlier, Meadows’ lawyer filed paperwork appealing an order signed by a South Carolina judge earlier this month that compelled him to appear at the Fulton courthouse on Nov. 30.

That followed a notice of appeal from Flynn’s attorney in Florida the same day that a Sarasota County Circuit judge ruled the retired lieutenant general was a “necessary” and “material” witness to the Fulton probe and must appear on Nov. 22.

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If you have nothing to hide, then go testify to the grand jury.

[snowybirdie]

1. Why South Carolina?

When the subpoena is from Georgia and Meadows is from North Carolina? Looks like somethings up.

[JohnSJ]

5. Exactly. Why is a state unrelated to this sticking their nose into this

[Ohio Joe]

7. Seems Meadows has moved to South Carolina

A South Carolina judge on Wednesday ruled that former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must appear for testimony in the Atlanta-area grand jury 2020 election meddling investigation.

“I am going to find that the witness is material and necessary to the investigation and that the state of Georgia is assuring not to cause undue hardship to him,” Judge Edward Miller – who sits on the Court of Common Pleas in Pickens County, South Carolina – said at the end of a hearing Wednesday morning.

The matter was before the South Carolina judge because Meadows now lives in South Carolina and Atlanta-area prosecutors sought an order there compelling his compliance with the subpoena.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/politics/mark-meadows-georgia-election-grand-jury/index.html

[snowybirdie]

9. Thanks

My the man moves around, doesn't he?

[iluvtennis]

8. + agree. I completely overlooked the venue. It's indeed strange. n/t

[Botany]

2. The South Carolina Supreme Court??? Isn't the case in Georgia?

Is there something I don't get here?

[iluvtennis]

10. @Botany - see added info I added above - an Atlanta Journal Constitution article. n/t

[Walleye]

3. I think Meadows knows he personally has a lot of legal exposure here

He sure is acting like he’s got a very guilty conscience

[GoCubsGo]

4. I'm confused as to how they even have a say in the matter.

IIRC, Meadows is a North Carolina resident being subpoenaed, by a Georgia state official. Are they suggesting that his head is fused up Lindsey Graham's ass, making him a SC resident that way?

[moonscape]

11. He was a NC rep but then didn't live

there. He was removed from NC voter roll when they learned he had also registered and voted in VA I think. He used a mobile home address in NC that he never once visited, which they rented for a couple/few months. His wife was there briefly before they bought a >1m lakefront home in SC near the NC border.

[Takket]

12. Oh come on

This is absurd. We cannot have a justice system where every time someone is subpoenaed they can just spend a year appealing it through every court in the land. There has to be tighter control on these appeals.

[gab13by13]

13. So what if he lives in another state?

"The matter was before the South Carolina judge because Meadows now lives in South Carolina and Atlanta-area prosecutors sought an order there compelling his compliance with the subpoena."

What is the law that would prevent Meadows from testifying in another state?

What law can the S.C. Supreme Court cite that would nullify the subpoena? So if a crime is committed and an eye witness is subpoenaed to testify concerning the crime, and the eye witness doesn't live in the state where the crime was committed, he can refuse to honor the subpoena and some partisan SC can make up a reason to back him up?

[In It to Win It]

14. He'll likely lose

There is no law that prevents him from testifying in another state. It;s the lack of jurisdiction. The subpoena does not have force of law outside of Georgia until Georgia prosecutor makes the necessary filings in SC.

[Ohio Joe]

16. Meadows has two basic items he is trying to use to squash the subpoena...

1st - It's a civil case in another state. This is a poor argument that is failing.
2nd - Executive privilege. This argument is also failing.

[kentuck]

15. I have a hunch the SC SC might side with Meadows?

Just a hunch.