Judge Deals Blow to Arizona Case Over 2020 Republican Electors

An Arizona judge has ordered state prosecutors to send back to a grand jury a case in which Republicans were charged last year for their alleged roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election, potentially jeopardizing the high-profile indictments.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam J. Myers sided with the Republicans and found that prosecutors failed to provide the grand jury with the text of an 1887 federal law that is central to the Republicans’ defense. The law, known as the Electoral Count Act, spells out how presidential electoral votes are to be cast and counted.

“We are extremely pleased with the court’s ruling, and we think the judge got it exactly right,” said Stephen Binhak, the attorney who spearheaded the effort to get the case back to a grand jury. The decision is a major setback for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D), who promised to appeal the ruling so she could keep the prosecution going. [...]

The ruling, filed with the court clerk on Monday, will require Mayes to assemble a grand jury to present the case along with a copy of the Electoral Count Act, attorneys said. The initial presentation of her case took weeks. Mayes plans to appeal the decision to try to get the prosecution back on track. – The Washington Post

Our Take: Arizona's fake and illegitimate AG is having problems.

Shocker. –

Chris Paul

Another Take: This case was sent back down because the “prosecutors failed to provide the grand jury with the text of an 1887 federal law that is central to the Republicans’ defense.”

That means that the prosecutors misled the grand jury.

They quickly fixed the “loophole” in the law that made the alternate electors entirely lawful (and duty-bound in my opinion)…

…but they didn’t tell the grand jury that the law actually made the alternate electors entirely lawful. That would have interfered with the political persecution.

I can’t believe this was sent back down and not thrown out. Why weren’t the prosecutors sanctioned. What an abuse of the Grand Jury for political purposes. This is literally weaponized government, to neglect to tell a grand jury about the law that authorizes the conduct you’re attempting to criminalize.

Five states have initiated criminal prosecutions related to the 2020 "fake electors" scheme: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

Interesting states, right?

I wonder if they misled grand juries by failing to inform them of the law in those other states, too. The defendants should find out.

All part of the coverup that is now coming to light.

Return the diamonds. –

Ashe in America