Democrat AGs Mayes and Kaul pursue lawfare against Trump backers over 2020

The 2020 election ended six years ago. But two power-hungry Democratic attorneys general up for re-election next year, Kris Mayes of Arizona and Josh Kaul of Wisconsin, are persisting in their legal battle against Trump supporters who legitimately challenged the election. These shameful cases must be stopped immediately.

President Trump and many supporters noted numerous discrepancies with the 2020 election. They challenged the results in several closely contested states. The First Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 allowed such challenges — just as Democrats challenged Republican presidential victories in 1968, 2000, 2004 and 2016. Leftists maliciously claimed that challengers had submitted “fake voters” to overturn the certified results in those states.

This is complete nonsense. No one was deceived by this intention Replacement voter. Rudy Giuliani didn’t have the “real” voters in his suitcase when he sent in the “fake” voters.

The electoral lists submitted were replacement electors in the event that Congress objected to the certification of electors in the disputed states on January 6, 2021.

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In 2022, Democrat Mayes defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by fewer than 300 votes Arizona Attorney General. She immediately began prosecuting illegal crimes against Trump supporters. Mark Brnovich, the former attorney general, took no action against those who contested the 2020 election because he acknowledged they had committed no crimes. Mayes didn’t care and filed charges against the 11 Arizona surrogate voters and seven other defendants, including Mike Roman, President Trump’s election day campaign manager.

A Maricopa County court correctly dismissed the charges and ordered Mayes to file for a new one. Mayes had not provided the grand jury with the full text of the Electoral Count Act, a complicated and opaque law that has direct bearing on the case. If the law permits the defendant’s actions, the state cannot maintain its case. Federal electoral law takes precedence over state law in federal elections. The law was so complex that Congress changed it several years ago through the Electoral Count Reform Act.

Mayes rushed there Arizona Court of Appeals. This court wisely declined to hear their appeal. Now she has asked the Arizona Supreme Court for review. The justices should follow the appeals court’s wise example and decline to hear Mayes’ appeal.

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Mayes is the same prosecutor who threatened to investigate President Trump over an alleged death threat against former Rep. Liz Cheney — a Trump-crazed RINO — during a campaign rally in Phoenix. Trump, of course, made no such threat, and Mayes abandoned her ploy shortly after the president’s stunning victory last November.

Wisconsin is also suffering by a partisan Democratic attorney general seeking re-election. In 2024, nearly four years after the conclusion of the 2020 election, Kaul, a radical leftist like Mayes, secured indictments against three defendants, including Roman and two of Trump’s lawyers.

The facts were the same as in Arizona, except that Kaul did not indict the ten replacement voters in Wisconsin. The defendants are now threatened preliminary hearing in Dane County, a left-wing bastion of the state capital and the ultra-liberal University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they are struggling to find a fair and impartial jury.

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A preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 15. A defendant has sought to disqualify Judge John Hyland on the grounds that a retired judge named Frank Remington wrote the opinion denying a defense motion to dismiss. The motion to dismiss included support from a Georgetown expert who concluded that Remington had drafted the opinion based on the writing style. Hyland denied the motion to dismiss, claiming he wrote the opinion.

Regardless of how the preliminary hearing goes, the case should be closed. Kaul brought the charges after the facts had been known for four years, in the middle of the 2024 election in which Wisconsin was a crucial swing state. We can’t Criminalize politics.

There was another embarrassment for prosecutors filing charges against a number of defendants in connection with Georgia’s 2020 election: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Her case was thrown into disarray when, thanks to Roman’s attorney Ashleigh Merchant, it was revealed that Willis was having an affair with one of the special prosecutors she hired, Nathan Wade, who received nearly $700,000 from Fulton County taxpayers. Wade spent much of his money on Willis and gave her lavish trips around the world. The lovers claimed Willis reimbursed Wade, but there was no corroborating evidence. Georgia courts disqualified Willis and a special prosecutor replaced her dismissed the case earlier this month.

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Lawfare Democrats failed to imprison Trump, bankrupt him, or defeat him at the polls. They’re trying to get one last pound of flesh from some of the president’s former advisers and supporters. Unless Mayes and Kaul follow the outstanding example of Georgia’s special prosecutor and resign Sham casesshould the courts in Arizona and Wisconsin.

The Ministry of Justice We should also charge these insults to the legal profession with conspiracy to violate the civil rights of these lawfare victims under 18 USC § 241. Ultimately, as we heard so much during the lawfare campaign against President Trump, no one is above the law.