John Eastman, the lawyer charged with orchestrating the so-called fake electors scheme designed to keep Donald Trump in office after his election loss, said in a statement that he was surrendering to authorities in Georgia today over "an indictment that should never have been brought.”

In his statement, Eastman asserted that the indictment targets attorneys for “zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients” and that his legal team will “vigorously contest” each of his indictment counts.

“I am confident that, when the law is faithfully applied in this proceeding, all of my co-defendants and I will be fully vindicated,” his statement said.

Eastman already agreed to a $100,000 bond in the case brought by Willis. He’s charged with racketeering, criminal conspiracy and filing false documents.

His attorney, Harvey Silverglate, has said Eastman didn’t do anything wrong, and had merely provided legal advice and guidance to Trump when he was president.

The indictment brought by Willis last week portrays Eastman as a key figure in the bid to subvert 2020 election results. It alleges that Eastman advocated for a scheme to have “alternate” presidential electors cast votes for Trump in Georgia and other states won by Joe Biden in case the former president was successful in any of his legal challenges there.

Prosecutors allege that after Trump lost those court challenges, Eastman became part of a pressure campaign designed to get then-Vice President Mike Pence to either declare the fake electors the proper ones or refuse to count the electoral votes from those states.

That pressure persisted, prosecutors say, even after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and disrupted the vote count during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, when Eastman emailed Pence’s lawyer and urged him “to consider one more relatively minor violation” of the Electoral Count Act and “adjourn for 10 days to allow the legislatures to finish their investigations” into the elections that had already been certified.

Eastman appears to be one of six unnamed co-conspirators in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal criminal case against Trump involving the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. He has not been charged by federal prosecutors in that case.

Like Meadows, co-defendants Jeffrey Clark and David Shafer are trying to move their cases to federal court.

Lawyers for Clark, a former Justice Department official who helped promote Trump’s conspiracy theories about election fraud, are also trying a new tactic. They say in court filings that they will file an emergency motion to block any attempt to execute arrest warrants related to the case, adding that they haven't seen any such warrants for him or other co-defendants.

"The District Attorney is apparently relying on news media announcements to alert defendants to her arrest warrant threats," they said. "This is inconsistent with due process. Defendants should not have to watch the news or search for press stories to try to track down all legal papers in this case."

The lawyers also accused District Attorney Fani Willis of brazenly attempting to lock up political enemies, saying, “We have faith that the federal courts will ultimately recognize this Action for what it is — a naked attempt to destroy Mr. Clark by 'lawfare,' cost him millions in legal fees, impair his work in the conservative legal community at the Center for Renewing America in Washington, D.C., and tarnish his previously stellar reputation."

David Shafer, who was indicted on charges stemming from his participating in the so-called fake electors scheme in Georgia, claims he has a right to move his case to federal court because he was acting as a presidential elector and at the direction of the president. He is also claiming immunity under the supremacy clause of the Constitution.

“The Supremacy Clause plainly bars the State’s attempt here to criminalize the actions of persons acting pursuant to federal authority to achieve the purposes of the national government," Shafer’s lawyers wrote. "Neither the State of Georgia nor any of its localities has the authority to prosecute Mr. Shafer for these actions, and this Court should exercise its clear authority to correct this injustice and halt this unlawful and unconstitutional attempted prosecution now.” 

Shafer’s lawyers also claim that the meeting of the “alternate electors” wasn’t shrouded in secrecy. They say media was invited into the room and the meeting was transcribed. An exhibit was attached to the filing with the transcription.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, one of the co-defendants charged with racketeering in the Georgia 2020 election probe, filed court documents last week seeking to move the new Fulton County case to federal court.

In a 14-page filing, Meadows argued that the charges in the indictment pertain to actions he took while he served in the Trump administration.

“Mr. Meadows has the right to remove this matter. The conduct giving rise to the charges in the indictment all occurred during his tenure and as part of his service as Chief of Staff,” Meadows’ lawyers wrote.

They requested “prompt removal,” citing a federal law that allows U.S. officers to remove civil actions or criminal prosecutions in state court for alleged actions taken “under color” of their offices to U.S. District Court. Meadows also intends to file a motion to dismiss the indictment “as soon as is feasible,” his lawyers wrote. ABC News first reported Meadows’ filing.

Moving the case to federal court could result in a more favorable jury pool for defendants, and it would almost certainly mean no cameras would be allowed in the courtroom.

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Former President Donald Trump said Monday night that he would turn himself in Thursday in Fulton County, Georgia, after he was indicted on sprawling charges stemming from his efforts to hold onto office in the wake of the 2020 election.

“Can you believe it? I’ll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Willis, who launched the investigation into Trump and his allies, has given the defendants until noon Friday to surrender voluntarily.

Willis last week hit Trump and 18 other people with racketeering charges, accusing them of scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 election and told them to surrender voluntarily at the Rice Street Jail.

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Scott Hall, a Georgia bail bondsman who was charged in connection with the Coffee County election data breach, has been booked into the Fulton County Jail, according to jail records.

Hall was among the 19 charged with Trump.

His bond is set at $10,000. He was one of five co-defendants whose consent bond agreement was made public yesterday. 

As of this morning, he is listed as an active inmate and his status shows as “detained.”