Supreme Court Won’t Take Michigan ‘Fake Elector’ Case

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a Michigan Republican who had signed a document falsely asserting that President Trump won the state in the 2020 election, The Hill first reported on Tuesday.

Clifford James Frost claimed that Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s criminal case against him and 15 other “fake electors” was brought in bad faith and asked the Supreme Court to halt the proceedings.

“The AG brought the Michigan Criminal Prosecution with no reasonable expectation of obtaining valid convictions against the Republican Electors,” attorneys for Frost wrote in his petition to the court.

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