GOP attempt to award Mich. Electoral College votes to Trump referred to feds, Nessel says
Source: Detroit Free Press
Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a television interview Thursday her office has referred the submission of a false slate of presidential electors from Michigan Republicans for the 2020 presidential election to federal prosecutors.
Nessel made the comments Thursday during an interview with MSBNC’s Rachel Maddow.
As Michigan’s presidential electors convened on Dec. 14, 2020, to cast their votes for Joe Biden, a group of Republicans signed on to their own certificate that attempted to award the state’s 16 Electoral College votes to Donald Trump.
The document, shared with the U.S. House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol last year, was obtained by POLITICO.
Law enforcement denied access to the group of Republicans who tried to deliver their own electoral votes to the Capitol in Lansing that day, incorrectly arguing they were the state's presidential electors. ...........................
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/01/14/nessel-gop-trump-feds/6522173001/
lots of lawyers will be making LOTS of money over this.
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and they drilled that into our heads. 
Glad to be of assistance.
Next Time.
and he has only been in office not even a year (won't be until January 20 of THIS year).
During that time, he has had to get NEW US Attorneys nominated to replace the TFG ones (still ongoing) so that they can try to proceed with getting the insurrection shenanigans worked on because you know those previous hand-picked ones were going to slow-walk it in each of their jurisdictions.
There are still some "actings" in there and others who are still in the positions (there are 94 total US Attorneys) pending confirmations of replacements. So far per this list - https://www.justice.gov/usao/us-attorneys-listing there are 32 Biden appointees who are operational.
And that list NOW includes the most important one of all with respect to the insurrection - the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, who JUST got confirmed October 28, 2021 and sworn in on November 5, 2021 - https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/meet-us-attorney
Before that happened, there were a series of 2 "actings" in there - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-prosecutor/veteran-prosecutor-phillips-to-return-as-acting-u-s-attorney-for-washington-d-c-idUSKCN2AU2MX
(in the federal government, those sorts of "acting" details are generally time-limited)
In the "good old days", unless you had a controversial nominee, these types of positions were confirmed "by unanimous consent" in the Senate. But the current GOP has stopped that process and has insisted on objecting to unanimous consents for many nominees - which then slows the process, requiring scheduling of a debate a vote of the full Senate. 
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And of the 2 US Attorneys in Michigan - https://www.justice.gov/usao/us-attorneys-listing
Michigan, Western Andrew B. Birge
Only one is a Biden nominee that has been confirmed AND she wasn't confirmed until a few weeks ago - https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/dawn-n-ison-sworn-united-states-attorney
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Eastern District of Michigan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
DAWN N. ISON SWORN IN AS UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
DETROIT - Dawn N. Ison was sworn in as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan by Chief United States District Judge Denise Page Hood.
Ison, who most recently served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Public Corruption Unit, will lead one of the largest U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the country. The office currently employs approximately 221 personnel in three locations (Detroit, Flint and Bay City) and serves more than 6.5 million residents.
“It has been a privilege to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney for over 19 years. I could not be more honored to extend my service to my hometown in this significant way as the United States Attorney, which serves as the pinnacle of my career. We will continue to work hard to ensure the protection and safety of every citizen in this district and make sure the people of this richly diverse community feel valued.”
President Joseph Biden nominated Ison on November 12, 2021, and she was confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2021. Ison succeeds Saima S. Mohsin who was appointed as the Acting U.S. Attorney in January.
Since 2002, Ison has served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, where she has prosecuted drug trafficking offenses at the highest level in the Office’s Drug Task Force Unit. She also served as Chief of that unit, which is the largest unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Since 2014, Ison has served as the Office’s District Election Officer, and also represented the Office in the federal court’s alternative to prison program. Early in her career, Ison spent twelve years as a criminal defense attorney.
Over the course of her career, Ison has successfully handled large-scale, complex, multi-defendant prosecutions. Ison’s work has been nationally recognized on several occasions by the Department of Justice and more recently by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She has also received U.S. Attorney’s Awards for Outstanding Service and for Superior Performance by a Litigation Team. During her career, Ison has taken more than 50 cases to trial both as a prosecutor and a defense attorney.
After law school, Ison served as a Prehearing Attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals. She graduated from Spelman College in 1986 and received her law degree from Wayne State University Law School in 1989.
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USAO - Michigan, Eastern
Before then, there was an "acting" US Attorney for that jurisdiction. The MI AG is a Democrat (in the position since 2019).
This is why the "delay". You don't want to hand off something as legally catastrophic as this to an "acting".
they shared all their evidence with a MI district USA. Both entities, state and federal, can still bring charges and likely will. What happened, at least to the best of my ability to read into this, is the state officials reached a point where the Michigan investigation led to crimes outside the state's jusrisdiction. Also, there may have been substantial contacts between the entities, but this just became known to us recently.
Well, the referral just became known to us, we watched the fake elector drama in real time as the criminals were filming themselves.
