New Mexico’s top prosecutor said Friday that the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race.
However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is making recommendations to state lawmakers that he says would enhance the security of the state’s electoral process and provide legal authority for prosecuting similar conduct in the future.
New Mexico is one of several states where Republican electors attempted to cast ballots indicating that Trump had won, a strategy at the center of criminal charges against Trump and his associates. Democratic officials launched separate investigations in some states, resulting in indictments against GOP electors.
I dunno… I’d imagine there’s something about “fraud” and “impersonating a government official” and, you know… TRYING TO OVERTURN A LEGITIMATE ELECTION!
This guy’s making excuses.
What’s the law say? What’s the loophole that the fake electors exploited? What’s the change that the AG proposes?
Do you know anything about what you’re talking about?
Loophole was they added fine print
In New Mexico and Pennsylvania, fake electors added a caveat saying the certificate was submitted in case they were later recognized as duly elected, qualified electors. That would only have been possible if Trump had won any of several dozen legal battles he waged against states in the weeks after the election.
Imo this is what they were supposed to do. Depending on other circumstances I’d say the same as the ag
gee i wonder how all those other fake electors are being prosecuted then… remains a mystery
In different states, which have different laws. I’m going to assume you’re just temporarily ignorant
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/federalism
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The fake electors in those states are facing federal charges, buddy.
Then they’re not relevant, friendo. This article is about the New Mexico AG, who by definition can only bring state charges against people, explaining that he can’t bring state charges against these people. Bringing up other people in other states facing federal charges is about as relevant as bringing up recent criminal cases from Vietnam.
The article is talking about New Mexico’s laws, pal
oh look, he’s wrong AND an asshole
Of course he is. He’s a Democrat.