In new court filings, the Nevada Attorney General’s Office is defending evidence used to establish probable cause and the decision to bring charges in Clark County against six so-called “fake electors” who falsely pledged the state’s electoral votes to Donald Trump in 2020.
Those arguments in favor of the two felony forgery charges filed against each of the six defendants included pointing out that the fake electors had, on Dec. 14, 2020, signed a document declaring themselves “the duly elected and qualified Electors for the State of Nevada for President and Vice President” in support of then-President Trump, despite his losing the state’s presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.
“Petitioners held themselves out as ‘being’ Nevada’s electors. And they made that statement in the present tense at a time when such a statement of fact was false,” state prosecutors wrote in a Thursday filing in Clark County District Court.
The filings came ahead of a March 11 expected trial date and specifically in response to efforts to dismiss the case by the defendants — Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald, Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Clark County GOP Chair Jesse Law, state party Vice Chair Jim Hindle, Shawn Meehan and Eileen Rice.