AG Ford Appeals ‘Fake Electors’ Case to NV Supreme Court

Attorney General Aaron D. Ford filed a motion with the Nevada Supreme Court requesting expedited consideration of the appeals filed in the “fake electors” cases.

“I have asked the Nevada Supreme Court to expedite its consideration of our appeals in the ‘fake electors’ cases,” said AG Ford. “It is imperative that we hold these six individuals accountable for the sake of both the public good and the integrity of our elections.”

In June, Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus dismissed the case involving six Republican ‘fake electors’ citing that the county was not appropriate jurisdiction.

“You have literally, in my opinion, a crime that has occurred in another jurisdiction,” Holthus said. “It’s so appropriately up north and so appropriately not here.”

According to reports, AG Ford said Judge Holthus “got it wrong.”

The Republican defendants include NV GOP Chairman Michael McDonald, Vice Chair Jim Hindle III, Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Clark County Republican Party chair Jesse Law, Shawn Meehan, and Eileen Rice.

The six defendants were indicted by a Clark County grand jury in December 2023 and were charged with Offering a False Instrument for Filing, a category C felony, and Uttering a Forged Instrument, a category D felony, for offering a false instrument titled “Certificate of the Votes of the 2020 Electors from Nevada” to the President of the Senate; the Archivist of the United States; the Nevada Secretary of State; and the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

In a released statement, the expedited appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court “will clarify the path ahead for prosecuting these crimes.”

“I have asked the Nevada Supreme Court to expedite its consideration of our appeals in the ‘fake electors’ cases,” said AG Ford. “It is imperative that we hold these six individuals accountable for the sake of both the public good and the integrity of our elections.”