富尔顿县地方检察官法妮·威利斯在周二的一份文件中重申了她对佐治亚州所有19名被告的渴望选举干预案一起接受审判，告诉法官她的办公室“坚持其立场，即在这个时候分开是不合适的，所有被告都应该一起受审。”
事态发展的同一天，法官监督听证会特朗普前幕僚长马克·梅多斯(Mark Meadows)要求将他的案件从州法院转移到联邦法院，他要求在就此事做出决定之前进行“有限的额外简报”。
威利斯的申请是在斯科特·麦卡菲法官命令被告肯尼斯·切塞布罗于10月23日出庭受审后提交的请求快速审判-在前总统唐纳德·特朗普的律师提醒法庭他们将着手分离此案后。
地方检察官正在寻求澄清McAfee法官最近的命令，该命令称，他为Chesebro设定的审判期限“不适用于任何共同被告。”
“从命令的文本中，佐治亚州不清楚法院的意图是否是将被告Chesebro的审判与其他被告分开，”地方检察官的文件称。
威利斯在提交的文件中辩称，在推动将被告集中在一起的过程中，“法庭面前没有足够的信息来确定任何被告是否可以获得分割的动议。”
该文件要求“至少”，法官命令前特朗普竞选律师悉尼·鲍威尔(Sidney Powell)与切塞布罗同时受审，鲍威尔也提交了快速审判动议。
地方检察官办公室还要求法官为任何想要中止此案的被告设定一个最后期限。
特朗普、切塞布罗、梅多斯、鲍威尔和其他15人在本月早些时候被威利斯指控全面的敲诈勒索起诉涉嫌试图推翻佐治亚州2020年总统选举的结果。这位前总统表示，他的行为并不违法，调查是出于政治动机。
Meadow的指控部分与他在臭名昭著的2021年1月2日的角色有关，电话特朗普向佐治亚州国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯佩格做出了这些举动，梅多斯认为，他作为联邦官员采取的行动“掩盖了”他作为特朗普幕僚长的身份。
梅多斯在周一的听证会上作证说，他的案件应该转移到联邦法院，因为他没有做“任何超出我作为幕僚长的职责范围的事情”，而检察官认为他的行为纯粹是政治性的，与他的公务无关，因此没有资格被免职。
在周二提交的法官命令中，他基本上是在问双方:如果梅多斯的一些行为是在他的官方角色中执行的，而一些不是，那会有资格被撤职吗?
“至少有一项(但不是全部)被指控的行为是以梅多斯办公室的名义发生的，这一发现足以让联邦撤销刑事起诉吗?”富尔顿县高等法院法官斯科特·麦卡菲问道。
前总统唐纳德·特朗普的幕僚长马克·梅多斯(Mark Meadows)走出佐治亚州北区的美国地方法院，在那里，关于他在2020年选举案中将富尔顿县的案件转移到联邦法院的请愿的听证会进行了
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双方都被要求在周四下午之前提交答复。
法官的命令是在该案的几名被告放弃正式传讯并对所有指控不认罪的情况下做出的。
鲍威尔和公关人员特里维安·库蒂星期二都提出了无罪抗辩，此前佐治亚州律师雷·史密斯三世星期一提出了无罪抗辩。
鲍威尔和史密斯的文件都表示，他们的律师认为，通过提交弃权书，他们“可以免于出席”即将到来的传讯，迈克菲已经定于9月6日所有19名被告都提出抗辩。
Willis seeks to have all 19 defendants in Georgia election interference case tried together
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in a filing Tuesday reiterated her desire for all 19 defendants charged in her Georgiaelection interference caseto stand trial together, telling the judge that her office "maintains its position that severance is improper at this juncture and that all Defendants should be tried together."
The development came on the same day that the judgeoverseeing the hearingover former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' request to move his case from state court into federal court requested "limited additional briefing" before he renders a decision on the matter.
Willis' filing came after Judge Scott McAfee ordered defendant Kenneth Chesebro to stand trial on Oct. 23, following Chesebro'srequest for a speedy trial-- and after former President Donald Trump's attorneys alerted the court that they would move to sever the case.
The DA is seeking clarification on the recent order from Judge McAfee, which stated that trial deadlines he set for Chesebro "do not apply to any codefendants."
"It is unclear to the State of Georgia from the text of the Order whether the Court's intention was to sever Defendant Chesebro's trial from the other defendants," the DA's filing states.
In pushing to keep the defendants together, Willis argues in the filing that there is "insufficient information before the Court for it to determine whether a motion to sever could be obtained by any of the Defendants."
The filing requests that "at a minimum," the judge orders former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, who has also filed a speedy trial motion, to stand trial at the same time as Chesebro.
The DA's office has also also asked the judge to set a deadline for any defendant who wants to sever the case.
Trump, Chesebro, Meadows, Powell and 15 others were charged by Willis earlier this month in asweeping racketeering indictmentfor alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. The former president says his actions were not illegal and that the investigation is politically motivated.
Meadow's charges relate in part to his role in the infamous Jan. 2, 2021,phone callTrump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger -- actions that Meadows argues he took as a federal official acting "under color" of his position as Trump's chief of staff.
Meadows testified at his hearing Monday that his case should be moved into federal court because he didn't do "anything that was outside of my role as chief of staff," while prosecutors argued that his actions were purely political and unrelated to his official duties -- and therefor do not qualify for removal.
In the judge's order, filed Tuesday, he essentially asks both sides: What if some of Meadows' actions were performed in his official role, and some weren't -- would that qualify for removal?
"Would a finding that at least one (but not all) of the over acts charged occurred under the color of Meadows's office, be sufficient for federal removal of a criminal prosecution?" the Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee asked.
Both sides were ordered to submit their responses by Thursday afternoon.
The judge's order came as several defendants in the case waived their formal arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty to all charges.
Powell and publicist Trevian Kutti both entered not guilty pleas Tuesday, following a not guilty plea entered Monday by Georgia attorney Ray Smith III.
Both Powell and Smith's filings said it's their attorneys' understanding that by filing a waiver, they "are excused from appearing" at the upcoming arraignment, which McAfee hasset for Sept. 6for all 19 defendants to enter their pleas in the case.
