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Arraignments for the 16 ‘false electors’ charged with eight felony counts apiece are set for Aug. 10, court records show. Several defendants charged and their supporters are doubling down on the actions Attorney General Dana Nessel argues violated Michigan law.
The group ranges from high-profile party officials to town clerks, mayors and a dairy farmer. Some are defiant, others flummoxed. All face the same felony charges for trying to award Michigan’s 2020 electoral votes to Donald Trump.
An Oakland County judge gave a special prosecutor exactly what he wanted: A broad interpretation of a law that a grand jury could use to indict former attorney general candidate Matt DePerno and other 2020 election deniers accused of tampering with voting machines.
The decision has been delayed, however, as a special prosecutor seeks a declaratory ruling on a law the grand jury could use to indict individuals, including former GOP attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno.
The Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission says Sidney Powell and other lawyers who tried to overturn the 2020 election committed ‘misconduct.’ A separate discipline board will now consider punishments.
Newly elected county commissioners voted to hire a well-known conservative law firm, bypassing a competitive bidding process and sparking transparency concerns.
The secretary of state was honored, along with other elections officials and Capitol police officers, by President Joe Biden in a ceremony marking the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Frustrated by the pace of a federal probe, Nessel says she’s re-opening a state-level investigation into a scheme to award Michigan’s 2020 presidential electors to Donald Trump even though he lost the state.
Not a single Michigander accused of related crimes has been acquitted in the Capitol insurrections. The 11 convictions and counting are part of a “massive” federal effort to deter future insurrections.
A two-year legal fight that sparked global conspiracies about voting machines ends as the court rejects a lawsuit from former GOP attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno.
A special counsel investigating events leading to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is seeking county-level records in Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin — three states where Trump tried to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Commissioners say election probe is a waste of money, cut funding for a third detective who was to investigate violent crime, not ballots. Separately, Leaf tried to charge a health officer for enforcing COVID orders, prosecutor says.
DePerno is Michigan’s top election conspiracy theorist, spending years trying to prove Donald Trump won the state. Now, he’s locked in a tight race with Attorney General Dana Nessel, who has her own baggage.
Republicans cheer judge's order that invalidates rules that would have banned cell phone use by election challengers and added a host of other restrictions.
The Republican makes no apologies. How a single mom parlayed debunked election claims to become the Republican nominee for secretary of state of Michigan.
Group founded by retired Gen. Michael Flynn interviewing clerks in nine Michigan offices, as part of effort to probe election weaknesses in eight swing states.