Impeachment is over, but other efforts to reckon with Trump s post-election chaos have just begun
Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post
Feb. 21, 2021
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WASHINGTON - The state of Michigan and the city of Detroit have asked a federal judge to sanction attorneys who filed lawsuits that falsely alleged the November vote was fraudulent, the first of several similar efforts expected across the country.
An Atlanta-area prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into whether pressure that then-President Donald Trump and his allies put on state officials amounted to an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the presidential election.
And defamation lawsuits have been filed against Trump s allies - the start of what could be a flood of civil litigation related to false claims that the election was rigged and to the subsequent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Meet the folks who wanted to overturn Wisconsin’s election. Legal complaint says they committed crimes. By Bruce Murphy - Feb 16th, 2021 05:38 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Complaint.
Donald Trump’s challenge to the state’s presidential election, and affirmed
Joe Biden as the winner. It was the last gasp for Trump, and left him with no other legal options in Wisconsin. Accordingly, Gov.
Tony Eversassembled the 10 duly authorized Democratic electors to sign official certificates casting the State of Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes, which were then mailed in an official documentation of the state’s electoral vote, to be read and tallied when Congress counted the electoral votes on Jan. 6.
Andrew Hitt, met on Dec. 14 to cast Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes for Trump, even though
Joe Biden won Wisconsin and was awarded the state’s votes.
Progressive legal outfit Law Forward wrote a letter to Milwaukee County District Attorney
John Chisholm and sent a complaint to the Elections Commission alleging that the actions of Spindell, Hitt and others was a violation of state law.
The Milwaukee County DA has the authority to decide whether or not to file criminal charges against the group and the WEC has the authority to decide whether or not to investigate the allegations made in the complaint.