'Whole new ballgame': Nevada judges step in with bad news for fake electors

The fake electors who tried to overturn the election results in Nevada in 2020 just got some bad news from the state Supreme Court.

According to Eric Neugeboren for the Nevada Independent, "The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that Clark County is an appropriate venue to hear forgery charges against the state's GOP fake electors, overturning a lower court's ruling."

What this means, he wrote, is that "The case will return to Clark County, where a jury will likely be more disadvantageous to the electors. It also marks the end of a case in Carson City, where prosecutors filed charges after the Clark County ruling. The charges were narrower than in Clark."

Nevada Independent chief Jon Ralston gave a more blunt assessment.

"Big news in NV on fake electors case: The NV Supreme Court has reversed the lower court, which had determined Clark County (D county) was the wrong place to hear the case because the fake electors met in Carson City (R county). Whole new ballgame for these election deniers."

Nevada is one of the few swing states where criminal cases against fake Trump electors are still ongoing. In many other states, the fake electors who signed forged documents claiming they were authorized to cast ballots on Trump's behalf in the Electoral College have either taken guilty pleas or had their cases thrown out on various legal grounds.

The fake elector scheme was outlined by far-right legal strategist John Eastman, who theorized that then-Vice President Mike Pence could use the "ambiguity" over multiple slates of electors to declare the real electors invalid, allowing Republican delegations in the House to throw the election to Trump.