Posted on 01/07/2023 6:32:40 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan attorney general said Friday there’s “clear evidence” to pursue charges against pro-Donald Trump Republicans who claimed they were the state’s presidential electors in 2020, despite Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory.
Dana Nessel referred the matter to federal prosecutors last year, but no public action has been taken. A year later, she said it’s time for state authorities to step in.
“Let’s be fair about what this was: It was an effort to overturn a lawful election,” Nessel, a Democrat, said. “That type of activity can’t go without any consequences. ... There are laws that specifically speak to their actions. I plan to reopen the investigation.”
In December 2020, Michigan’s electors cast 16 votes for Biden, following his 2.8 percentage point win in the state over Trump. But a separate group tried to enter the state Capitol with Trump’s Electoral College candidates.
The federal government notified the state that it had received unofficial signed certificates from GOP electors. The group included Meshawn Maddock, co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party.
Invalid certificates also were mailed to the U.S. Senate, the Michigan secretary of state and a federal court in western Michigan.
“There is clear evidence to support charges against those 16 false electors,” Nessel told reporters, noting the work of the House committee investigating the 2021 post-election riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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A Stalinoid vagitarian..
Ah!!! He’s like, “Oh yeah! Check that out!”
This what Michigan Voted For! Live with it!!!
Uh, that looks like a kiss you give gramma when you are forced to do it. What is going on with the Neasalweasal.
Michigan voted for no such thing. The reprobate wenches got in by the usual cheating.
You mean the QUEER, far right?
Why are people in Michigan so anti-American?
“Why are people in Michigan so anti-American?”
It’s only around metro areas. Most of the state is full of beer drinkin’ pineys (i.e. rednecks). A few of my relatives who haven’t migrated are quite the opposite of what you hear coming out of Detroit.
ZZTop in your tagline? :)
Is there a law against claiming to be an elector?
I hold the unpopular view that the only forum able to appoint Electors and to dispute the authority of Michigan’s Biden Electors prior to December 14, 2000 was the Michigan Legislature, and that by failing to do so they affirmed the Electors as validly appointed.
That having been said, I can’t imagine that pretending to be a validly appointed Elector is a crime, any more than dressing up as James Madison and distributing copies of the Constitution is.
They are trying to copy the German criminal code, under which certain types of political opinions are criminal.
It's all me, B.
I'm not getting the cultural reference.
Is it because Billy Gibbons hates MAGA?
And the democrats DID overturn
an election.
It was THEM that pulled off a coup.
““Let’s be fair about what this was: It was an effort to overturn a lawful election,””
Prove it!
Because of the ethnic urban victim mentality.
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