Tag: electors
Trump’s ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme Detailed in Newly Released Messages
Emails and texts unearthed in a lawsuit show how key figures intended their plan to create a “cloud of confusion” to help keep Donald Trump in office [...]
New Mexico attorney general says fake GOP electors can’t be prosecuted, recommends changes
Fake certificates were submitted in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
In New Mexico and Penn [...]
As More ‘Fake Electors’ Face Charges, a Key Witness Emerges
Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the plan to deploy people claiming to be Trump electors in states won by President Biden, is cooperating with inquir [...]
Fake Trump Electors in Wisconsin Accept Biden’s 2020 Win in Settlement
The agreement bars the group of 10 Republicans from serving as electors in 2024 or any other election in which former President Donald J. Trump is on [...]
Architect of Fake Electors Scheme Appeared to Be Outside Capitol on Jan. 6
Photographs and videos reviewed by The New York Times suggest that Kenneth Chesebro, one of the legal architects of former President Donald J. Trump’s [...]
Lawyers Ask Court to Sanction Kenneth Chesebro Over Trump Fake Electors Scheme
An ethics complaint in New York against Kenneth Chesebro is the latest example of legal troubles for lawyers who helped Donald J. Trump try to overtur [...]
Arizona Officials Warned Fake Electors Plan Could ‘Appear Treasonous’
Two Arizona Republicans recruited by allies of former President Donald J. Trump to join an effort to keep him in office after he lost the 2020 electio [...]
The Fake Electors Scheme, Explained
The Trump plan began with an effort to persuade Republican officials in the targeted states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylv [...]
Emails Reveal Details of Trump Fake Electors Plan
Previously undisclosed emails provide an inside look at the increasingly desperate and often slapdash efforts by advisers to President Donald J. Trump [...]
Jan. 6 Panel Will Turn Over Evidence on Fake Electors to the Justice Dept.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has asked the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol for evidence it has accumulated about [...]
In Trump Electors Investigation, Justice Dept. Issues More Subpoenas
The Justice Department stepped up its criminal investigation of a plan by Donald J. Trump and his allies to create so-called fake slates of electors i [...]
Trump Lawyers Are Focus of Inquiry Into Alternate Electors Scheme
The Justice Department has stepped up its criminal investigation into the creation of alternate slates of pro-Trump electors seeking to overturn Josep [...]
Wisconsin Democrats Sue G.O.P. Fake Electors Over 2020 Scheme
In the first lawsuit of its kind, two Democrats who served as Electoral College delegates from Wisconsin in 2020 have sued 10 Republicans who were on [...]
Memos Show Roots of Trump’s Focus on Jan. 6 and Alternate Electors
Fifteen days after Election Day in 2020, James R. Troupis, a lawyer for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, received a memo setting out what became the r [...]
Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Fake Trump Electors
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Friday issued 14 subpoenas to people who were part of fake slates o [...]