“It should go through,” Dershowitz told “Newsline” host Bianca de la Garza of the move to federal court. “The law permits transferring cases to federal court if the person indicted was indicted for crimes committed while a federal official as part of his duties as a federal official.

“The issue will be whether or not these crimes, particularly the ones in Fulton County, were done as part of his role as president or were done outside of the role as president. The federal judge will make the first determination of that and that will be subject perhaps to appeal.”

[This motion has a decent shot at success. The removal statute exists to prevent states from conducting lawfare against federal officials past or present, and that is clearly at least part of Fani Willis’ intent. However, the alleged criminal acts have to have a connection to official duties of the office involved. Typically federal judges will use wide latitude on that requirement, but would that apply to an election? – Ed]