STATE v. MEADOWS

No. 23-12958.

88 F.4th 1331 (2023)

The STATE of Georgia, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mark Randall MEADOWS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: December 18, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis McDonald Wakeford, IV , Alex Bernick , Adam Ney , Fani T. Willis , John William Wooten , Daysha D'Anya Young , Fulton County District Attorney's Office, John E. Floyd , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Anna Green Cross , Cross Kincaid, LLC, Decatur, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellde.

John S. Moran , George James Terwilliger, III , Francis Aul , Robert Bittman , Michael Lee Francisco , Emily E. Kelley , McGuireWoods, LLP, Washington, DC, Joseph Matthew Englert , McGuireWoods, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Maithreyi Ratakonda, Brooklyn, NY, Jonathan L. Williams, States United Democracy Center, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Erwin Chemerinsky, Amy Lee Copeland, Sarah R. Saldana, Shan Wu.

Seth Paul Waxman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Donald B. Ayer, John J. Farmer, Jr., Charles A. Fried, Stuart M. Gerson, J. Michael Luttig, Alan Charles Raul, William F. Weld.

Michelle S. Kallen, Jenner & Block, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Constitutional Law Scholars, Former District and State's Attorneys, State Attorneys General, U.S. Attorneys, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Law Enforcement and Dept. of Justice Officials.

Before William Pryor, Chief Judge, and Rosenbaum and Abudu, Circuit Judges.


This appeal requires us to decide whether Mark Meadows, former chief of staff at the White House, may remove his state criminal prosecution to federal court under the federal-officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1). After a Fulton County grand jury indicted Meadows...

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