The alleged architect of Trump’s strategy to overturn the results of the election faces additional legal trouble.
Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, listens to questions from reporters in 2023 file photo. John Eastman, a former dean of Chapman University’s law school and an advisor to former President Donald Trump, was indicted by an Arizona grand jury for his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
They were charged Wednesday with conspiracy, fraud and forgery, marking the fourth state to bring charges against “fake electors.” The description of a defendant that matched Eastman read, in part, that the person “was an attorney who encouraged the Republican electors to vote on December 14, 2020, and spread false claims of widespread election fraud. He also pressured the legislature in Arizona and six other states to change the outcome of the election.
Their lawsuit asked a judge to de-certify the results that gave Biden his victory in Arizona and block the state from sending them to the Electoral College. In dismissing the case, U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa said the Republicans lacked legal standing, waited too long to bring their case and “failed to provide the court with factual support for their extraordinary claims.
In Arizona, Mayes’ predecessor, Republican Mark Brnovich, conducted an investigation of the 2020 election, but the fake elector allegations were not part of that examination, according to Mayes’ office.
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