Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is working hard to position herself for a gubernatorial run in 2026. However, with the failure of her efforts to sue the Trump administration for derailing the gender ideology train from which she rode into office, coupled with allegations of her slow-rolling a corruption probe for a ballot committee for which her wife is co-chair, the balloon of Nessel's aspirations for higher office is quickly deflating. Now, a 2020 election lawsuit she filed, which she thought would raise her profile, has instead blown up in her face.
As RedState reported in 2023, Nessel made the move to reopen an investigation that Biden's U.S. Department of Justice chose to table: the Michigan Trump electors who banded together in an attempt to certify that then-President Donald J. Trump had won the 2020 election against former VP Joe Biden.
Read It Here: Michigan Attorney General Hits Trump's 'Fake Electors' With Fraud Charges
Nessel's choice to charge the supposed "fake electors" with multiple fraud counts was a head scratcher, and ultimately became her undoing. On Tuesday, a state judge dismissed the charges against all 15 Trump electors, citing a lack of evidence to prove their intent to defraud.
A Michigan state judge on Tuesday dismissed charges against the fake electors who signed certificates falsely claiming President Donald Trump won Michigan in the 2020 election, saying that the state failed to prove the 15 men and women were knowingly trying to break the law.
The group includes current and former state GOP officials, a Republican National Committee member, a mayor, a school board member and Trump supporters who were the plaintiffs in a frivolous lawsuit that tried to overturn the 2020 results. Each was facing eight charges.
“This is a fraud case, and we have to (prove) intent, and I don’t believe that there’s evidence sufficient to prove intent,” Judge Kristen Simmons said from the bench Tuesday in her Lansing courtroom.
The ruling ends the criminal prosecutions, which sought to punish state-level actors for ignoring the popular vote results, which went in favor of Joe Biden, and instead institute the will of political actors who supported Trump.
Despite ongoing cases surrounding fake electors in Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, this is a clear signal that these efforts to punish Trump supporters who stood beside him in his struggle to prove malfeasance in 2020, and those who wanted to cement the narrative that 2020 was indeed a "free and fair" election, have been rendered null and void. With mounting evidence that then-candidate and former VP Joe Biden was never all there as far back as 2019, coupled with the erosion of the indictments that had been lodged against then-candidate and former President Trump, the pieces of what could well be considered an American color revolution continue to disintegrate.
The bigger proof: Trump won the 2024 election. Now that he is president again, he is making great strides in undoing the damage from the last four years. Part of this is working to ensure the most prominent actors who spearheaded the damage will be held accountable, while ensuring justice for those who were wrongly swept up in their persecution matrix. It will no doubt slip under the radar, but expect news of those other fake elector cases being dismissed or falling to the wayside.
State Rep. Matt Maddock, whose wife was one of the electors under indictment, now says he plans to sue Nessel, adding more weight to her legal and political woes.
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Michigan GOP chairman Jim Runestad issued a statement celebrating the dismissal and sounding off about Nessel's politicization of the AG's office.
Today, Judge Kristen Simmons restored the public's faith in our justice system. All 2020 Trump Electors have officially been vindicated.
Nessel's use of the Attorney General's office to ruin and destroy the lives and reputations of 15 innocent Michigan Republicans is the perfect example of "lawfare." Attorney General Dana Nessel's political attack against 2020 alternate Trump electors was slapped down in court. This is not only a huge win for these electors but also for justice itself.
From the beginning, this was a blatant abuse of power. Nessel weaponized the legal system to financially, emotionally, and personally break her political opponents. Her endless harassment campaigns have wasted taxpayer dollars and undermined confidence in the rule of law. This travesty of justice never should have happened.
A great victory for the rule of law. Congratulations to these 15 innocent Michiganders who stood strong.
Should this type of defeat and exposure of her corrupted actions continue, Nessel can probably kiss her gubernatorial hopes — or any future in politics — goodbye.
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