Clark County Judge Mary Kay Holthus on Thursday once again dismissed the Nevada 2020 alternate electors case after years of lawfare.
Nevada’s Democrat Attorney General Aaron Ford is expected to appeal.
In December 2020, Republican electors in Nevada cast ballots for Donald Trump.
Nevada cast procedural votes for President and Vice President to preserve the Trump campaign’s legal challenges.
The Trump campaign asked Trump electors to cast their votes as litigation makes its way through the system, as we saw in the 1960 election with Nixon vs Kennedy.
In 2024, Judge Mary Kay Holthus dismissed the case against the 6 Nevada GOP electors.
The judge said Clark County was not the appropriate venue to bring the charges against the electors. The judge agreed that the case should have been brought in Carson City.
The Nevada Supreme Court last year revived the Trump 2020 alternate electors case days after President Trump issued sweeping pardons of allies and attorneys.
In a unanimous 6-0 decision the Nevada Supreme Court overruled the lower court’s decision and revived the Trump electors case.
Nearly three years ago, Nevada’s Democrat Attorney General Aaron Ford announced charges against 6 Trump 2020 alternate electors.
When the Democrats cast alternate electors, it’s called ‘dueling electors.’ When the Republicans cast alternate electors, it’s called ‘fake electors’ and indictments come down from crooked Democrat attorneys general.
Six Trump electors were indicted on felony charges by a grand jury in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Nevada.
“When the efforts to undermine faith in our democracy began after the 2020 election, I made it clear that I would do everything in my power to defend the institutions of our nation and our state,” Aaron Ford said in a statement. “We cannot allow attacks on democracy to go unchallenged. Today’s indictments are the product of a long and thorough investigation, and as we enter into litigation, I am confident that our judicial system will see justice done.”
“Among those charged are some of the top officials from the Nevada Republican Party, including Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald, Nevada Republican Party National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Clark County Republican Party Chairman Jesse Law, and Storey County Clerk Jim Hindle, as well as Republican operatives Shawn Meehan and Eileen Rice.” ABC News reported.
“Each of the defendants have been charged with felonies including offering a false instrument for filing, offering a forged instrument, and offering a false instrument titled “Certificate of the Votes of the 2020 Electors from Nevada” to the President of the Senate; the Archivist of the United States; the Nevada Secretary of State; and the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.” the outlet said.
On Thursday, Judge Mary Holthus agreed with the defendants and ruled that is was their right to challenge the official election results.
The judge said that the defendants did not intend to deceive government officials.
“The fact that Defendants openly announced both their actions and their asserted purpose, rather than concealing their conduct or attempting to secretly induce governmental reliance, weighs against a reasonable inference that they acted with fraudulent intent,” Holthus wrote in her ruling.
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