Nina Totenberg
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NPR News: 11-12-2024 8PM EST
Meadows is one of 18 people indicted in Georgia on charges of illegally conspiring to keep then-President Trump in office in 2020 and Trump was indicted on similar charges, but the Supreme Court earlier this year granted him broad immunity for prosecution for his official acts. Meadows sought to leverage that decision to apply to him.
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contending that the charges against him should be moved from state to federal court because he was a federal officer at the time the alleged conspiracy took place. But a federal appeals court ruled that Meadows is no longer a federal official and that even if he were, his actions were not related to his official duties.
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The Supreme Court today has left that ruling in place, which means that the Trump Justice Department cannot dismiss the state charges. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
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They're called ghost guns because these build-it-yourself gun kits, when assembled, have no serial numbers and can't be traced when found at a crime scene. Moreover, buying a kit does not require a background check. At least until 2022, as these assembled guns became more and more of a problem for law enforcement.
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and the Biden administration issued a rule classifying the kits as firearms under the 1968 Gun Control Act. The statute defines a firearm as any weapon that is, quote, designed to or may readily be converted into a functional firearm. The government contends that the kits thus qualify as guns. The sellers of the kits challenge the rule, contending that a bunch of parts do not count as guns.