Posted on 11/14/2025 11:21:00 AM PST by Red Badger
A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday revived the criminal case against six prominent allies of President Donald Trump who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors amid Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election.
The justices concluded that Attorney General Aaron Ford properly brought the forgery case in Las Vegas, overruling a lower-court decision that found the case should have been brought in Carson City, where the pro-Trump elector nominees signed the false documents.
The 6-0 decision comes just days after Trump pardoned dozens of allies — including the six defendants in Nevada — for any potential federal crimes related to the 2020 election. However, the president’s pardon power does not extend to state-level offenses like those brought by Ford.
Among those facing forgery charges — which carry a maximum five-year penalty — are the state’s sitting GOP chairman Michael McDonald, his vice chair Jim Hindle and the state’s Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid.
At the urging of the Trump campaign in 2020, dozens of Republican activists in seven swing states signed certificates claiming to be legitimate presidential electors — though each of the battlegrounds went for Joe Biden. Many were told by party and campaign leadership that the paperwork was a legal necessity to ensure that their electoral votes would be counted if Trump prevailed in any of his court challenges to the election results.
However, top Trump advisers at the time were also planning to use the false certificates to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to derail Biden’s victory when Congress met to count ballots on Jan. 6, 2021. Pence, however, refused to recognize the GOP-signed certificates because they were not certified by the states’ governors or legislatures, depriving them of any legal or constitutional legitimacy.
The continuation of the case, nearly five years after the elector certificates were signed, stands in contrast to the fate of a similar criminal case brought by Michigan prosecutors against 16 Republicans who took part in the same effort. A judge there dismissed the case in September, saying the evidence failed to show the defendants acted with criminal intent.
A criminal case in Arizona against the state’s 10 false GOP electors remains in limbo as Attorney General Kris Mayes contends with the trial judge’s ruling that the grand jury proceedings were flawed. In Wisconsin, another criminal case remains pending against three leaders of the Trump campaign’s elector effort. A fourth case in Georgia has been largely derailed after the state supreme court disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from continuing to preside due to an alleged conflict of interest.
If Trump’ electors get convicted, SCOTUS would likely take the case as a free speech question. They had a right to question the election certification, which SCOTUS ducked shamefully.
There is NO SUCH THING AS ‘FAKE ELECTORS’...................
It’s not about convicting them. They’re going to lawfare them into bankruptcy. There’s no downside for the democrats. If there is a countersuit for damages and legal fees the state (aka the taxpayers) will have to pay.
https://caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us/public/caseView.do?csIID=69862
FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW-—FORD IS A GRADE A SNAKE
So was Henry.......................
More on the Get Trump Train - all aboard!
Alternate slates of electors figure peripherally in every presidential election.
Guess corruption in Nevada goes all the way up to their Supreme Court. Amazing how Republicans doing the same thing (alternate electors) that democrats have done forever is illegal when Republicans do it.
As an FYI … there were THREE sets of electors certified for Hawaii in 1960. And the two with the “fake” electors were the ones that had the actual winning candidate in Hawaii (Kennedy) certified.
Yes, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) can rule on a state court case involving free speech suppression if the case raises a federal question, meaning it involves a constitutional right like the First Amendment. The state court’s decision is reviewed to ensure it aligns with the U.S. Constitution, as the First Amendment provides the minimum standard for free speech that all state governments must uphold
They were “Alternate Electors.”
These judges are crazy.
It’s OK when the Democrats do it but a crime when Republicans do it. Nevada went for Biden by less than 35,000 votes. How many of those were fraudulent?
It will also possibly damage the midterm elections.
The allegation (per the article, anyway) is that they signed forged / fake documents and presented themselves as the official Electors. Not that they "questioned the election." Or is that portion of the article false?
2. You have completely fabricated the facts of this case. In fact, you have made sh!t up out of thin air. These people have been charged with fraud and/or forgery for signing elector certificates. This was not an act of protest but a legitimate function in the election process. If they try to base their defense in this case on a First Amendment claim, they are going to lose in embarrassing fashion. Presidential electors who sign official documents as an act of protest are no different than a hospital custodian who supports the legalization of all drugs, and tries to exercise his First Amendment rights by pretending he’s a medical doctor and signing prescriptions for opioid painkillers.
“damage the midterm elections.”
Yep, no downside for democrats.
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