Judge rejects Trump co-defendant's attempt to move election subversion case to federal court

Embroiled former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who faces election subversion charges in Georgia, has failed to remove his case from state court and have it sent up to the federal level, according to a judge’s order issued on Friday.

The 31-page order by U.S. District Judge Steve Jones follows a similar denial he recently issued to Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows when Meadows also sought to move charges he faces in Georgia state court to federal court.

The case will stay in the Fulton County Superior Court where Clark, the former assistant attorney general at the Justice Department environmental and natural resources division, was indicted alongside Meadows, Donald Trump and 16 others this August on a host of criminal conspiracy and racketeering charges.