Federal judge won't intervene in Michigan fake elector case [View all]
A federal judge in Michigan shot down a request this week to intervene in the case the Michigan Attorney General’s Office brought against a group of former President Donald Trump supporters for submitting false state electoral votes for the Republican in the 2020 election.
One of the 15 defendants, Clifford Frost of Warren, filed in November a complaint against Attorney General Dana Nessel and his defense has implored U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker to get involved. The defense said in a filing this week that the defendants did not commit any criminal offenses and Nessel is acting in “bad faith” if the prosecution continues.
Similar arguments have been made by several of the lawyers representing different defendants, which the prosecution says willfully tried to subvert the integrity of the election process by falsely submitting documents saying they were the state’s rightful electors. There have been arguments that many in the group didn’t know what they were signing or they signed the documents as a form of political protest.
Jonker addressed the points Frost’s defense made, saying in an order Thursday there isn’t a credible reason for the persecution to be impeded at this time. Although the defense has “raised multiple issues that a court will have to address and resolve on the merits … this is by no means enough to establish the bad faith prosecution exception,” Jonker said.
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