The first-term attorney general says there was enough evidence to prosecute GOP officials including state party co-chair Meshawn Maddock for submitting a false certificate claiming Trump carried the state in 2020.
Trump loyalists on Tuesday filed language for a planned petition drive that would require a ‘forensic audit’ of the 2020 election. Critics blast it as the height of hypocrisy.
The so-called ‘kraken’ suit seeking to void Michigan’s presidential election had already been declared a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”
New emails and testimony shows former President Donald Trump and allies continued to spread false claims about Michigan election results even after Homeland Security and Justice officials debunked a report on Antrim County voting machines.
Sidney Powell and other attorneys who tried to overturn Michigan’s 2020 presidential election must pay legal fees, undergo training and will be referred to local jurisdictions for possible suspension or debarment investigations.
Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, who contemplated seizing voting machines, is now using a private investigator for an investigation of claims that local clerks say have been repeatedly debunked.
No decision, but a judge says pro-Trump attorneys should have done more to verify ‘fanastical claims’ in suit that foes say fomented the Capitol riots. But one lawyer says ‘we would file these same complaints again.”
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has accepted a request from the Republican-led Senate Oversight Committee to investigate “those who have been utilizing misleading and false information” about the 2020 election “to raise money or publicity for their own ends.” And the state police are assisting.
Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf tried to enlist ‘constitutional sheriffs’ to seize Dominion voting machines, emails show, as his attorney kept Trump allies up to date. Nothing came of the effort.
Sen. Ed McBroom alienated Republicans and Democrats alike with an exhaustive report that told the truth about the 2020 election. If he loses re-election, that’s OK. ‘I’m very content milking cows the rest of my life.’
New York suspends Rudy Giuliani law license following false claims about Michigan election, while the former president tells followers to vote GOP senators behind report debunking fraud ‘the hell out of office.
Long-awaited investigation repudiates conspiracy theories and recommends Attorney General Dana Nessel launch probe of those who spread claims for personal gain.
Six months after Congress certified the 2020 election, pro-Trump officials in the Michigan Republican Party want the state Legislature to order an audit.
Michigan communities got millions for elections last year from a nonprofit connected to Facebook’s founder. Is the money long overdue or a dangerous precedent?
