Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis has until September 30 to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court appeal seeking to move former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ election subversion case to federal court.

Willis indicted Meadows, former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others last year on charges of attempting to illegally overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden with the aid of “fake electors” and attempts to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” additional votes for Trump.

Meadows appealed to the Supreme Court last month after a previous attempt to take his case out of Willis’ jurisdiction failed in a lower federal court. The former Trump official claims that he is immune from state prosecution in Georgia due to his alleged crimes being committed while he was performing official duties.

On Monday, the Supreme Court granted the district attorney’s office’s request to delay filing a response to the appeal from Meadows. Had the request been rejected, Willis’ office would have had to respond by August 29.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is pictured during a hearing in Atlanta, Georgia on March 1, 2024. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a request to delay Willis’ deadline to respond to an…


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Assistant Fulton County District Attorney F. Donald Wakeford argued in the request that additional time was needed because the original response date would conflict with several of his other professional and personal commitments.

“As a member of the leadership of the District Attorney’s Office for the Atlanta Judicial Circuit, the undersigned has numerous other professional commitments prior to the current deadline,” Wakeford wrote. “The undersigned also has a previously scheduled period of personal leave between August 23 and September 3, 2024.”

“In light of these conflicts, the requested extension will assist in ensuring that the undersigned has an adequate opportunity to review and respond to the petition for a writ of certiorari and will better enable preparation of a response that will be most helpful to the Court,” he added.

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.