A federal judge on Monday denied former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ move to move his Arizone ijudgment One lawsuit focused on federal court conversion efforts Donald Trump‘s 2020 election defeat.
U.S. District Judge John J. Tucci said Meadows missed the deadline to file his motion and “failed to show good cause that would permit the Court to excuse the untimeliness.”
Meadows’ attorney did not immediately return a request for comment Monday night.
In April, an Arizona grand jury indicted Meadows and two other former Trump aides — Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epstein — and several so-called “voter fraud” in an effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state.
Formerly meadows lost the attempt to send a Georgia indictment in a similar case to federal court.
He pleaded not guilty in both cases.