Nevada's attorney general has launched an investigation targeting pro-Trump activists who falsely claimed to be Trump electors after Joe Biden won the state in 2020, Politico reported.
According to report, the quietly-launched probe is putting Republicans who falsely declared themselves to be the state’s duly appointed Electoral College representatives in serious legal trouble.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford initially signaled back in May that criminal charges against the activists were unlikely, but has since changed his tune, Politico wrote.
“I’ve never said that we’re not going to prosecute,” he told 8 News Now in September. “It is not that I’ve said that I can do nothing. What I have said, and I’ve been precise with my wording on purpose, is we don’t have statutes in this state that directly address the issue.”
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The current status of Ford's investigation is unknown.
From Politico: "In Nevada and in other states, the people who acted as false electors said at the time that they were doing it as part of a contingency plan because of lawsuits Trump’s team brought challenging the election outcome.
"But after courts rejected those lawsuits, Trump used the existence of the false electors to pressure his vice president, Mike Pence, to block the certification of the results on Jan. 6. Chesebro similarly noted that pro-Trump members of Congress could invoke the false electors as a rationale for upending the results."
Read the full report over at Politico.
