{"id":17528,"date":"2025-10-15T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=17528"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:24:53","slug":"supreme-court-declines-to-hear-fake-2020-elector-case-from-michigan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=17528","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Declines To Hear \u2018Fake 2020 Elector\u2019 Case From Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from Clifford James Frost, a Michigan Republican charged in connection with efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n

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Frost was among 16 individuals who signed documents falsely claiming that then-President Donald Trump won Michigan, despite the state\u2019s certified results showing Joe Biden\u2019s victory. He argued that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel\u2019s (D) prosecution was brought in bad faith and asked the justices to intervene to halt the criminal case.<\/p>\n

The Court\u2019s decision leaves the state\u2019s case against Frost and the other defendants to proceed in Michigan courts, The Hill\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AG brought the Michigan Criminal Prosecution with no reasonable expectation of obtaining valid convictions against the Republican Electors,\u201d Frost\u2019s lawyers claimed in\u00a0his\u00a0petition<\/a>\u00a0to the justices.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe did so to retaliate against and\/or punish the Republican Electors \u2013 all of whom are political opponents of the AG \u2013 for their unsuccessful efforts to protest the outcome of the election,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n

However, a Michigan judge last month dismissed the charges against Frost and 14 other defendants, ruling that the state lacked sufficient evidence to prove criminal intent. The decision effectively ends the case unless Attorney General Dana Nessel appeals the ruling.<\/p>\n

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State District Judge Kristen Simmons suggested in her ruling that the defendants were not \u201csavvy or sophisticated enough\u201d to fully comprehend the electoral process they were accused of attempting to manipulate in an effort to overturn President Biden\u2019s 2020 election victory.<\/p>\n

At the time, Nessel said her office was \u201cevaluating\u201d whether to appeal the decision. Her office later waived its right to respond to Frost\u2019s petition to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

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Michigan charged the 16 pro-Trump electors in 2023, asserting there was \u201coverwhelming evidence of an organized effort to circumvent the lawfully cast ballots of millions of Michigan voters in a presidential election.\u201d One defendant who cooperated with the prosecution later had their charges dropped.<\/p>\n

The alternate electors strategy hinged on then\u2013Vice President Mike Pence certifying slates of pro-Trump electors from battleground states instead of the legitimate Electoral College votes cast for President Biden. Pence declined to do so on Jan. 6, 2021, the same day a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n

Similar criminal cases involving so-called \u201cfake electors\u201d have faced legal setbacks in several states.<\/p>\n

In Arizona, a state judge in May ordered prosecutors to resubmit their case to a grand jury. In Georgia, where Trump himself is a defendant, the case remains in flux after the state\u2019s top court declined to review Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis\u2019s disqualification, following revelations about her relationship with a special prosecutor. In Nevada, a judge dismissed the case, a decision that the state\u2019s Democratic attorney general is appealing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the federal election interference case against Trump was dismissed after his presidential election victory, ending the prosecution.<\/p>\n

In Wisconsin, however, the criminal case against two former Trump attorneys and a former campaign aide is moving forward. A state judge in August declined to dismiss charges alleging that the trio conspired to submit false paperwork claiming Trump won the state\u2019s 2020 election.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Trump\u00a0scored<\/a>\u00a0a massive victory at the Supreme Court this week, even getting traditionally liberal justices in his favor.<\/p>\n

The court lifted a lower court injunction that was preventing the president from stripping the protected legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants currently residing in the United States.<\/p>\n

The decision was 8 \u2013 1 in favor of what the president wanted, with the only dissent coming from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who former President Joe Biden appointed.<\/p>\n

Solicitor General John Sauer argued before the Supreme Court this month that the lower court had overstepped its bounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe district court\u2019s reasoning is untenable,\u201d he said, saying that the program \u201cimplicates particularly discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments of the Executive Branch regarding immigration policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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