周三，一家上诉法院计划在本周晚些时候就特朗普前幕僚长马克·梅多斯(Mark Meadows)提出的紧急动议进行口头辩论，该动议旨在暂停一家下级法院的裁决，该裁决否认他努力移动他的佐治亚州选举干预案联邦法院，等待上诉。

根据周三晚间的命令，法院指示在周五上午就Zoom进行口头辩论。

当天早些时候，法院还批准了梅多斯关于加快上诉的单独请求，并就此事设定了初步的简报时间表。

在周三的裁决中，上诉法院命令梅多斯在9月18日之前就此事提交初步简报，富尔顿县地方检察官范尼·威利斯(Fani Willis)将在9月25日之前做出回应。

在这些简报之后，法院表示，如果它认为“有必要”，它将安排口头辩论

上周，在史蒂夫·琼斯法官之后，梅多斯提交了上诉通知书，然后分别向第十一巡回上诉法院提交了紧急延期请求拒绝了梅多斯的出价根据一项联邦法律，当有人被指控作为联邦官员以其办公室的“名义”采取行动时，要求取消州法院向联邦法院系统提起的刑事诉讼。

上诉法院的裁决是在琼斯否认单独请求要求梅多斯暂缓执行，称梅多斯“未能证明应该准予暂缓执行。”

在这张2020年10月21日的资料照片中，白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯在华盛顿白宫外接受电视采访后对记者发表讲话。

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作为命令的一部分，琼斯注意到梅多斯的论点，即他可能会因下个月的审判而受到不可挽回的伤害，但法官表示，“梅多斯的审判日期尚未确定，他承认不能保证他的审判将在10月进行。”

这一进展发生在威利斯继续推动该案所有19名被告一起受审之际。

地方检察官办公室在周二的一份法庭文件中写道，“将这个案件分成多个漫长的审判将对富尔顿县高级法院的司法资源造成巨大压力”。

斯科特·麦卡菲法官上周定于10月23日开庭被告肯尼斯·切塞布罗和西德尼·鲍威尔都提出了快速审判的要求。包括前总统唐纳德·特朗普在内的其他几名被告已经提出动议，要求分开审理他们的案件。

威利斯在周二的文件中列出了如果获得遣散费，可能会出现的“后勤困境”:一旦获得遣散费，被告就会在10月23日的审判开始后，转身要求自己迅速审判，从而“迫使富尔顿县法院系统在三组或更多组法官面前，就同一事实同时进行三次或更多次审判。”

因此，地方检察官要求法官要求其他被告放弃快速审判的权利，并将他们要求的审判日期“记录在案”，以“防止陷入文件中描述的后勤困境”。

梅多斯和包括前总统唐纳德·特朗普在内的其他18人在一次庭审中对所有指控不认罪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。

梅多斯群岛起诉书中的被告参与了八次“促进阴谋的公开行为”，而他的律师说，“起诉书中指控梅多斯先生所做的一切都不是犯罪。”

Appeals court to hear arguments on Mark Meadows' effort to pause lower court's ruling in Georgia election case

An appeals court on Wednesday scheduled oral arguments for later this week on an emergency motion filed by former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, which seeks to pause a lower court's ruling that denied his effort to move his Georgiaelection interference caseto federal court, pending appeal.

The court directed oral arguments to occur on Friday morning over Zoom, according to the order late Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, the court also granted Meadows' separate request for an expedited appeal, and set an initial briefing schedule on the matter.

In its ruling Wednesday, the appeals court ordered Meadows to file an initial brief on the matter by Sept. 18, with a response from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis due by Sept. 25.

After those briefings, the court said it would schedule oral arguments on the matter if it determines it is "warranted."

Meadows filed a notice of appeal and then, separately, a request for an emergency stay with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals after Judge Steve Jones last weekrejected Meadows' bidto have his case moved, based on a federal law that calls for the removal of criminal proceedings brought in state court to the federal court system when someone is charged for actions they allegedly took as a federal official acting "under color" of their office.

The ruling from the appeals court came a day after Jones denied aseparate requestfor a stay from Meadows, saying that Meadows had "failed to show a stay should be granted."

As part of the order, Jones took note of Meadows' argument that he would be irreparably harmed by the possibility of a trial next month, but the judge said that "no trial date has been set for Meadows, and he admits that it is not guaranteed his trial will be in October."

The development comes as Willis continues to push for all 19 defendants in the case to be tried together.

"Breaking this case up into multiple lengthy trials would create an enormous strain on the judicial resources of the Fulton County Superior Court," the DA's office wrote in a court filing Tuesday.

Judge Scott McAfee last weekset an Oct. 23 trial datefor defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell after they both filed speedy trial demands. Several additional defendants -- including former President Donald Trump -- have filed motions to sever their cases.

Willis, in Tuesday's filing, laid out a potential "logistical quagmire" if severance is granted: that once granted severance, the defendants then turn around and request their own speedy trials after the Oct. 23 trial has started, thus "forcing the Fulton County Court System to simultaneously accommodate three or more trials, on the same facts, before three or more sets of judges."

As a result, the DA asked the judge to require the other defendants to waive their right to a speedy trial and "go on the record" with their requested trial date, in order to "prevent the logistical quagmire" the filing described.

Meadows and 18 others, including former President Donald Trump, have pleaded not guilty to all charges in asweeping racketeering indictmentfor alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia.

Meadows isaccused in the indictmentof participating in eight "overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy," while his attorney has said that "nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal."