The Supreme Court has rejected a petition from Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff during the first Trump administration, to move his 2020 election subversion case to federal court.

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Mark Meadows move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court, effectively barring the former chief of staff during Donald Trump’s first term from claiming immunity from those charges.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a bid by Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to transfer his criminal election-fraud case in Georgia to federal court, part of a move that he hoped could derail the case altogether.