Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people charged with him in Georgia will be charged next week with participating in a massive illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

All 19 defendants, including former mayor of New York

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Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will arraign on Sept. 6, after which they will also be allowed to enter oral arguments, according to the court.

A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to whether the former president intended to refrain from acting.

The defendants met Friday’s deadline to turn themselves in at the Fulton County Jail. Trump was booked Thursday night frowning at the camera in the first-ever police photo of a former president.

All but one of the defendants had agreed to bail and terms with Fulton County Dist.

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j. Fani Willis in advance, and they were free to go after booking.

Harrison William Prescott Floyd, who is accused of harassing a Fulton County election official, failed to negotiate bail in advance and remained in jail after turning himself in.

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Thursday. Federal court records from Maryland show that Floyd, a former U.S. Marine active with the Black Voices for Trump group, was also arrested three months ago on a federal warrant accusing him of aggressively confronting two FBI agents. agents sent to serve him with a grand jury subpoena. .

Floyd’s attorney, Todd A. Harding, noted in a court case Monday that his client was the only African-American male among the defendants and the only one without bail. Harding asked a judge to order a reasonable bail for his client during a bail hearing scheduled for Thursday.

Willis, who used Georgia’s racketeering law to bring the case, claims the suspects participated in a massive conspiracy to illegally try to keep the Republican president in power even after his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Meadows is seeking to challenge Georgia’s charges in federal court. A hearing was held Monday on the transfer of his case there from the state court. At least four others charged in the indictment are also seeking to move the case to federal court, including Jeffrey Clark, a U.S. Department of Justice official.