Judge tosses forgery case against Nevada’s 2020 ‘fake electors’
The case is a major victory for Trump allies, as the defendants had long maintained the certificate was not used to intentionally deceive officials into believing it was legitimate. Holthus had initially tossed the case in June 2024, after determining that the Democratic attorney general filed charges against the six Republicans in a county that lacked jurisdiction over the case. But the issue was revived in her court last year, when the Nevada Supreme Court unanimously overruled her decision to dismiss the case.
- ▪The case is a major victory for Trump allies, as the defendants had long maintained the certificate was not used to intentionally deceive officials into believing it was legitimate.
- ▪Holthus had initially tossed the case in June 2024, after determining that the Democratic attorney general filed charges against the six Republicans in a county that lacked jurisdiction over the case.
- ▪But the issue was revived in her court last year, when the Nevada Supreme Court unanimously overruled her decision to dismiss the case.
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A judge in Nevada on Thursday dismissed for the second time a case involving six defendants who faced charges of illegally claiming they were the state’s electors after President Donald Trump was declared the loser in the 2020 presidential election.In her ruling, Clark County District Judge Mary Kay Holthus tossed out forgery charges against the six Republican “fake electors,” finding there was not enough evidence that they intended to defraud state officials when they signed a certificate stating Trump had won the state’s six electoral votes. The case is a major victory for Trump allies, as the defendants had long maintained the certificate was not used to intentionally deceive officials into believing it was legitimate.
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