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Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark Beg for Deadline to Surrender to Be Pushed Back

The pair have asked for emergency orders from a judge in relation to Donald Trump’s racketeering case in Georgia.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal court to intervene in moving his deadline to surrender in the Georgia election RICO indictment. In an “emergency motion” asking for a judge to “protect” him, Meadows’ attorneys quoted a Tuesday morning email from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to his lawyer, saying she was “not granting any extensions” for surrender. “Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant,” Willis wrote. “The two weeks was a tremendous courtesy.” Jeffrey Clark, a former DOJ official indicted in Georgia along with Donald Trump and 17 others, also asked a judge Tuesday to grant an emergency stay in the case, whining that he didn’t have enough time to get down to Atlanta to surrender ahead of a Friday deadline. He argued that he wanted to avoid “the choice of making rushed travel arrangements to fly into Atlanta or instead risking being labeled a fugitive.” The request is part of a larger filing by Clark begging to have his case moved to federal court—an ask already made by several other co-defendants, including Meadows. On Tuesday afternoon, the judge said that Willis had until 3 p.m. Wednesday to respond to Clark’s filing.