BREAKING: Georgia State Court vs Federal Court? Rest Easy. It Doesn’t Matter

Earlier tonight MSNBC reported that indicted miscreant Mark Meadows had gone to court in the northern District of Virginia to request a change of venue for the trial he hasn’t even surrendered for yet, from Georgia state court to federal court.

This is not unexpected, and since the news of the indictments broke last night, most pundits and legal experts expect the ringleader, Traitor Tot, to pull the same stunt.

The reason is simple. The argument that Trump and Meadows, and maybe others will make before the court is that in performing what Willis is claiming are acts furthering a criminal conspiracy were actually simply a part of their jobs. And as Trump’s Chief of Staff, setting up and making phone calls for the boss, making contacts with state officials, are all a recognized part of his job. Likewise His Lowness will argue that in contacting state officials in order to ensure the accuracy of the vote tally, and assignment of fair electors is a part of his job. And that could be true, as far as it goes.

But there are thorns in those roses. For instance, while ensuring fair results of a federal election may be part of his job, pressuring a Secretary of State to Find him 11,780 votes because he knows that there was rampant voter fraud is not one of them. And the US Constitution gives the President No Role in the choosing of state electors, neither does scheming with state GOP legislators to ram through alternate slates of electors. As for Meadows, knowingly lying to a SoS when talking about the massive voter fraud the FBI has uncovered isn’t in his job regs either.

There are benefits to getting the case to federal court though. For starters, the federal jury pool would be larger than the heavily Democratic Fulton County jury pool. Also, cameras are prohibited in federal court, where it is at least a 50-50% chance that a Trump trial in state court in Georgia would be televised, probably larger. But the biggest reason that had people looking around for fainting couches, including me is that, if the case goes to federal court, even if Trump and Meadows are convicted, if FrankenTrump is reelected, he can sign pardons and make it all go away.

But the funny thing is, it doesn’t work that way, legally. For a hypothetical. Let’s say you’re facing trial in Fulton County, Georgia, and for whatever reason you honestly feel you can’t get a fair trial in Atlanta, so you put in a change of venue request with the court. And let’s just say that the judge agrees with you, and moves the trial to Macon, Georgia.

You know what you accomplished? You moved the venue 83 miles. In most states, the judge will follow the trial, borrowing a courtroom in the new venue. The prosecutors will make the journey, obtaining temporary digs as well. The only thing you did was to change the venue, all of the presiding laws and procedures remain the same. You just got what you hope is a more favorable jury pool.

News Flash! With one notable exception, everything remains the same if you move from a state court to a federal court. Only two things change. The first is that a federal judge will preside over the trial. And as I’ve noted, you’ve expanded the jury pool outside of heavily Democratic Atlanta.

That’s it. Fani Willis and her team will still be trying the case in federal court, not DOJ lawyers. The judge will be trying the case using the Georgia indictments under Georgia rules of evidence and procedure. And most importantly, if Trump and/or Meadows are convicted, they’ll be convicted of Georgia state crimes, and the judge will use Georgia state sentencing guidelines. And pending appeals, they’ll be courted off to Georgia state prisons.

When I heard that tonight, I almost wept with joy. Because if Trump and Meadows are convicted in federal court, they’re convicted of state charges. And even if The Mango Messiah gets back in the White House, while he may be able to defer serving his own sentence, He. Can’t. Pardon. Meadows.

So, why bother? For one thing, pray for at least one MAGA *sshole on the jury to hang the jury, something less likely in Fulton County. For another, you can hope to use the federal court to try to hold up the trial with bullsh*t motions until it’s too late to hold the trial before the election.

But the most critical point is this. Even if they’re convicted in federal court, they can’t avoid the state consequences of their actions. If they go down, they go down for at least five years in the state diaper pail. Call me cheap, but I can live with that.