This Week: Legal Cases Against Trump and Fake Electors Who Supported Him Picked Up Steam
This week, in the federal case against former President Donald Trump for allegedly leading a coup attempt after losing the 2020 election, an appellate court upheld the gag order on Trump, Trump notified the court he is appealing the “ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution,” and the special prosecutor, in an attempt to prevent the case from being further delayed, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to “fast-track consideration of Donald Trump’s claim he is immune from prosecution.”
In the New York civil fraud case in which the judge ruled that Trump and his businesses committed fraud by overvaluing their assets, the court called Trump’s appeal of a gag order “laughable” in a brief.
In the Fulton County, Georgia, case against Trump for allegedly leading a vast multi-state criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 presidential election in seven states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, prosecutors officially added former Vice President Mike Pence to their witness list and pushed back against Trump’s claim that holding the trial this summer “amounts to election interference.” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis called this charge “ridiculous.”
In Nevada, a lawsuit was filed to keep off the ballot a proposed initiative to require photo ID to vote. Also in Nevada, six people were indicted for fraudulently submitting to Congress documents claiming that Trump won the 2020 presidential election in the state.
In Arizona, a pro-MAGA state senator who was one of eleven fake electors who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state, announced that he will not cooperate with an investigation by the state into the matter.
In Wisconsin, ten people who “posed as fake electors” for Trump and filed paperwork falsely saying he won the 2020 presidential election in the state settled a civil lawsuit and admitted that Biden won Wisconsin, and the pro-MAGA state senate majority leader refused to rescind his appointment of one of the fake electors to the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
In Michigan, a court-sanctioned MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for violating court rules “related to the Dominion voting machine defamation case” in which he is a defendant.
In Georgia, pro-MAGA legislators approved a gerrymandered congressional map that appears to defy a judicial ruling to draw maps that do not violate the Voting Rights Act, while in North Carolina, Black and Latino voters filed a federal lawsuit to strike down congressional districts drawn by pro-MAGA legislators that they claim “weaken minority voting power in violation of the U.S. Constitution.”
