Arizona fake elector indictments come at the worst time for Trump's immunity claim
by MSNBC
MSNBC— An Arizona grand jury handed up an indictment Wednesday that accuses 18 people of crimes related to the attempt to throw the 2020 presidential election for former President Donald Trump. The list of defendants includes not only the 11 Arizonans who were appointed as “fake electors” in that state but also lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Christina Bobb, members of the Trump campaign’s inner circle. Even though Trump isn’t directly named in the indictment, appearing only as “unindicted co-conspirator...
MSNBC—Why isn’t Trump charged in the Arizona ‘fake electors’ indictment?. It’s been another big legal week for Donald Trump. His first criminal trial kicked off in New York, and his Supreme Court immunity hearing just took place in Washington. He also made a legal cameo in Arizona, as an unindicted alleged co-conspirator in a new indictment stemming from efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election. Major figures in Trump world, such as Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, are charged in the state indictment, along with so-called fake electors. But why isn’t Trump...
The Guardian—The pro-Trump Arizona fake electors scheme: what’s in the charging document?. The indictment details the steps to push the concept of alternate electors in an alleged effort to overturn Biden’s victoryThe indictment against the slate of fake electors in Arizona and the Trump allies who advanced the scheme there includes a host of public statements and private exchanges that show how the group intended to overturn the state’s electoral votes for Joe Biden in 2020.Arizona’s Democratic attorney general, Kris Mayes, announced on Wednesday that a state grand jury charged the...
MSNBC—An unsettled contradiction at the heart of Trump’s immunity claim. As Donald Trump’s lawyer, D. John Sauer, tried to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that his client should have immunity from prosecution, there was a phrase the defense attorney turned to on several occasions. “A former president,” Sauer said, “has permanent criminal immunity for his official acts, unless he was first impeached and convicted” in Congress. What if a president were to sell nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary? He or she “would have to be impeached and convicted first,” the...