Lansing, Michigan (AP) – Previous Abandoned Federation Attempts Indictment of attempting to overturn Donald Trump His 2020 election lossstate and local prosecutors filed lawsuits against his fake electors.
The term referred to people who declared themselves as legitimate electors to vote for Trump at election colleges in several swing states that former President Joe Biden won. It was part of Trump Long shot bid He rejects Biden’s electors and pushes Congress forward to throwing elections at him.
Democrat prosecutors filed charges against Trump himself before he was charged with Special Prosecutor appointed by Biden’s Department of Justice, Fake Election Most prominent examples of methods People who helped Trump They faced consequences for their attempts to reverse the election outcome. Many of these cases are currently at dead ends or just limping.
Following last year’s US Supreme Court, charges against Trump have been dropped after he won the election Domination granting presidential immunity Many of their actions as they have been appointed. While fake elector cases were laid out, some have hit legal obstacles – a Michigan judge on Tuesday most dramatically The charges have been dismissed against 15 Republicans charged by the state’s Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Judge Kristen Simmons said the prosecutors had not shown that the defendants were intending to fraudulent the public.
“It’s right, wrong, or indifferent. For some reason, for some reason, I genuinely believed that these individuals and many other individuals were serious about the election,” Simmons said.
Fake election cases have been hit by set-ups in other states
Simmons’ firing came after an Arizona judge sent a fake electoral case there Return to the big juju For full instructions on what federal law requires, a Nevada judge dismissed the charges in that state and concluded that they were filed in the wrong city.
Nevada Attorney General, Democrat Aaron Ford has The price has been modifiedArizona Democrat Chris Mays is suing. In Georgia, the fake electoral allegations are one of the complaints filed against Trump and others by Falton County District Attorney Falton County Attorney Fani Willis. I sue her removal For ethical reasons.
In a call with a reporter Tuesday, Nessel lamented that it was ‘it’ becoming more and more difficult’ and lamented the winning of election cases across the finish line.
“And I think it’s because of the fear of retaliation and the ongoing threat of the threat our judges receive when they primarily side the case where the president has an interest,” she said.
Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at George State University, said that although they followed the case, they all involved unprecedented behavior that the legal system has never dealt with before.
“The bottom line is these very 40,000-foot-level cases that come to “protect democracy,” and the criminal justice system is not equipped to handle it,” he said.
Ambiguous Electoral College Language provided opening
Each state has a set number of electors assigned to winners of the popularity vote in the presidential contest. Then those electors Cast actual votes for the presidentIt will be read later in Parliament.
After the 2020 election, Trump and his allies misused vague language in 19th-century laws governing along with the constitution. How are Presidential recipients recognized?. Congress has closed many of the potential loopholes 2022 Legislation This includes specifying that the state can only submit one slate of the electors and that it was the governor who signed off.
Those who supported Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election praised Michigan’s firing for demonstrating the false electoral case was vindictive.
“We all knew from day one that we hadn’t done anything illegal or wrong,” said Mesh Maddock, the former party chair and most well-known Michigan Republican, in writing. “Yes, we volunteered to be an alternative elector in support of Donald J. Trump. That’s not as much a crime as Nessel wanted it.”
“Great news from Michigan!” Creta Mitchellthe lawyer who advised Trump during a push to reverse the 2020 outcome, was posted on social platform X.
The Arizona and Nevada Attorney General’s Office declined to comment, citing ongoing legal proceedings. The Wisconsin case, filed by Democratic Attorney General Josh Cowl, is moving slowly, but there was no set-off. Last month’s judge Denied the defendant’s request Dismiss the case.
One of the Michigan defendants filed criminal charges after reaching a contract to work with the Attorney General’s Office. In Georgia, former Trump lawyers and advisors Jenna Ellis, Sydney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro Plead guilty to misdemeanor charges before the incident ran through. Ethical Issues.
The defendant saw himself as an “alternative” elector.
Many of the defendants in the case said Trump won one of the court tasks he filed and signed up for the scheme as a kind of procedural insurance in case a new slate for the electorate is urgently needed. Congress’s January 6th deadline Count votes. There are no lawsuits It was a success in the end.
Marian Sheridan, one of the people charged in Michigan, said the lawsuit was dismissed, but on Tuesday said it would act as a “backup” or “lifeboat” if the election results are reversed.
“We weren’t fake,” she said. “We’ve alternated.”
Rick Hahnen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said such arguments were part of why he viewed the false electoral case as some of the “weak” criminals filed after the 2020 election.
But he said that he was a combination of these failed prosecutions and avoiding Trump’s liability and his combination. More than 1,500 pardons It was a tough combination that was convicted of a crime caused by an attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“It’s all perfect for creating truly bad incentives for a system of free and fair elections and peaceful transitions of power,” Hasen said.
