Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must testify to a grand jury in Georgia that’s investigating possible election-related misconduct, South Carolina’s top court ruled on Nov. 29.
“We have reviewed the arguments raised by Appellant and find them to be manifestly without merit,” South Carolina’s Supreme Court said in a brief ruling.
Lawyers for Meadows did not respond to a request for comment.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, filed a request with a South Carolina court stating that Meadows is a “material witness” in the probe into possible misconduct regarding the 2020 presidential election.
Willis has cited Meadows’s involvement in a Dec. 21, 2020, meeting with former President Donald Trump Trump and others to discuss the certification of Electoral College votes from Georgia, as well as his visit the following day to the Cobb County Civic Center in Marietta, where absentee ballot signature matches were being made, as evidence that he should be questioned in the investigation….