Mark Meadows wants his criminal case moved to federal court, under an Obama-appointed judge.
A federal judge may be more sympathetic to arguments that he's immune from the case, experts say.
Meadows, Clark, and several other defendants have asked to have their cases removed to federal court.
"A federal court judge might be more sympathetic to some of their federal constitutional defenses that they might want to raise," Ratakonda told Insider.
A state court proceeding would also take in jurors from Fulton County, which voted overwhelmingly for Biden in 2020.
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