Mark Meadows, chief of staff for former president Trump, on Tuesday petitioned a judge to stop his state arrest as he attempts to remove his 2020 election case to federal court.

In an emergency motion, Meadows’s attorney requested either to expedite transferring his case to federal court or for an order to block Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from seeking his arrest if he does not surrender to the Fulton County Jail by the Friday deadline.

The official, who alongside other defendants was charged in an indictment alleging a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has been trying to move his case from the Superior Court in Fulton County, Ga., to the federal court for the U.S. Northern District of Georgia.

“Absent this Court’s intervention, Mr. Meadows will be denied the protection from arrest that federal law affords former federal officials, and this Court’s prompt but orderly consideration of removal will be frustrated,” Meadows’s attorney John Moran wrote in a court filing.

Willis, who spearheaded the indictment, had already rejected Meadows’s lawyer’s request to defer his arrest deadline until one day after the federal court hearing, scheduled for Monday.

“I am not granting any extensions,” an email from Willis, included in the court filing, read. “I gave 2 weeks for people to surrender themselves to the court. Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction.”

Meadows was charged following Willis’s investigation with one count of racketeering and one count of solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer. The latter offense referred to his involvement in a phone call on Jan. 2, 2021, when Trump pressured Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to secure him a victory in the state.

Earlier this week, Meadows’s attorney asked the federal court to dismiss the charges.

“Meadows would be irreparably injured if the state criminal proceeding is not stopped,” Moran said. “He would be subject to arrest, to the State’s pre-trial criminal restrictions, and, ultimately, to risks of criminal sanction.”

On Monday, Trump’s bond was set at $200,000 in the Georgia 2020 election case. Signed by his lawyers Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg, and Jennifer Little, the agreement was reached after his attorneys negotiated with the Fulton County district attorney’s office. Trump’s order included prohibitions on witness intimidation using his social-media platform Truth Social.

“The Defendant shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a codefendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,” the order read. Trump is forbidden from making direct or indirect threats against any co-defendant, victim, the community, or property of the community. The order also applies to “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media.”

Willis also reached a bond agreement with John Eastman, one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants, for $100,000 on Monday. A bond order for $10,000 was also announced for Trump co-defendant Scott Hall, who was accused of racketeering and loitering in a restricted area of an elections office in Atlanta when voting systems were breached in January 2021, CNN reported.