Nevada Attorney General Appeals Indictments of GOP Members Linked to Alleged Election Fraud
The Nevada Attorney General is seeking to uphold the indictments of six Republicans accused of submitting a fake certificate to Congress declaring Donald Trump as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. This is part of a larger scheme across seven battleground states to keep Trump in office after losing to Joe Biden. Criminal cases have also been filed in Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona.
The fate of the Nevada case known as the fake electors case is uncertain, as a district court judge recently ruled that Las Vegas was the wrong venue for the case and that charges must be dismissed. Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, has since filed an appeal to the state Supreme Court.
The defendants, including state GOP chairman Michael McDonald and other party members, face charges of offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument. Defense attorneys argue that the case was improperly brought before a grand jury in Democratic-leaning Las Vegas instead of in a northern Nevada city where the alleged crimes occurred.
Trump lost to Biden in Nevada by more than 30,000 votes, and an investigation by the then-Secretary of State found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state. The Nevada Supreme Court has not yet scheduled oral arguments in the case.
With the appeal pending, the outcome of the indictments against the GOP members remains uncertain as the legal process continues.
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