Posted on 11/25/2020 2:52:49 PM PST by MtnClimber
We have been discussing the use of the criminal code by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) to threaten people who post videos on alleged voter fraud or legislators who raise such objections in the state. These threats are coercive and abusive, particularly when targeting opponents of your party who are challenging the victory of your candidate for president. Yet, as shown by a congressman seeking to disbar dozens of Trump lawyers, such threats are popular in today’s rage-filled politics. So, Nessel continued her threats of prosecution on Monday in warning that a former state senator could be prosecuted for alleging possible voter fraud at a meeting of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers. So, raising voting fraud at the board overseeing voting is now a possible basis for prosecution in Michigan.
Former state Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R) raised his concerns during the meeting. He was appropriately asked if he had brought his allegations of voter fraud to the state attorney general. Julie Matuzak (D) asked “If you’re alleging fraud in this election, have you taken it to the attorney general, your evidence?” She noted that the board has little ability to investigate such claims. Colbeck responded “I’ve submitted my affidavits to lawyers, and we’ve moved it up the chain that way. I can submit it to anybody you’d like me to submit it to.”
Of course, many Republicans in the state may be a tad reluctant to reach out to Nessel given her threats of prosecution against citizens and legislators alike.
As if to fulfill that view, Nessel immediately responded with yet another threat of prosecution. She noted that Colbeck “has never made a complaint of election fraud” to her office and then added “Colbeck’s assertions aside, intentionally making a false claim of criminal activity to law enforcement is itself a crime. It’s been my experience that is often the reason certain reports are not made.”
How do you explain votes in excess of precinct registered voters then?
A well-coordinated ATTACK on the citizens of The United States of America from within.
TREASON
Justice IS NOT cruel and unusual punishment. Our fellow citizens, great Americans, died on foreign battlefields for this?
bttt
Alleging a crime is now a crime to the twisted, deranged freak that the idiots of Michigan put in their AG office
We all know why she’s doing it...to scare away anyone who might find out the truth
Soros AG
There are a bunch of them and they are poison.
It’s a she. All the Nazis in upper power in Michigan are women.
There is a little problem of the First Amendment.
So the AG is threatening retaliation for bringing charges?
That’s interference and it’s illegal.
Correct me if I’m wrong but - she’s playing with words: “intentionally making a false claim of criminal activity”. Colbeck assumes what he is saying and believing is true. If he states that to a law enforcement official, he can’t be prosecuted if he truly believed what he’s saying is true, even if it’s not. It is, and IF given the chance, can be provable.
The correct way an HONEST AG would state it is “intentionally making a claim of criminal activity KNOWINGLY to be false is itself a crime.”
Big difference.
Good....Bring it. the sooner they file to prosecute...the sooner the voters can get to discovery and unleash the hounds.
Fraud is very likely when the stakes are high and the safeguards removed.
People have a right to petition for the redress of grievances, in this case a deeply flawed voting system.
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