Several liberal legal pundits, who praised Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel for indicting 16 Republicans for attempting to submit a false electoral vote in the 2020 election, called on members of the Electoral College to vote against Donald Trump in 2016, a survey of tweets has revealed.
Nessel announced the charges on Tuesday after the Justice Department failed to indict Michigan Republican co-chair Meshaun Maddock and others for false signatures. certificate and challenged the state’s valid electoral votes for then-candidate Joe Biden. But many legal commentators who praised Mr. Nessel’s decision urged electoral colleges in states Trump won in 2016 to vote for candidates other than Mr. Nessel. (Related: Michigan Attorney General Accuses 16 Trump ‘Fake Electors’ During 2020 Election)
“Michigan, my Michigan, what a great state! Finally an Attorney General worthy of her title. Kudos and tributes to Dana Nessel of Michigan AG, a true civil servant.” tweeted Lawrence Tribe is professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. Tribe said in 2016, tweeted “All it takes is for only 12% of Trump’s 306 electoral votes, or just over 1 in 10, to vote against the impeachable crime of walking and talking,” he said, seemingly encouraging such a vote.
Liberal activists such as Chris Hayes, Norm Eisen, Lawrence Tribe, and George Takei called on electoral voters to vote against President-elect Donald Trump in 2016. pic.twitter.com/lSXOw6dB3f
— KanakoaTheGreat (@KanakoaTheGreat) July 19, 2023
Norman Eisen, a CNN legal analyst and former US ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Obama administration, said: Said Or “[w]I predicted this would happen months ago and now accountability is here and everywhere,” he said in a tweet after the announcement. 2016, Eisen I have written “Electors should not choose, they cannot choose” [a] A man who breaks his oath,” Trump said.
Some states have laws banning “dishonest electors” from voting for anyone other than the promised presidential candidate. Thirty-three states prohibit dishonest voting by electors, 14 states void such ballots, and Oklahoma and North Carolina impose penalties on the electors themselves for such ballots. according to to a fair vote. While other states may count dishonest electoral votes, California criminalizes dishonest ballots with up to three years in prison, state officials said. election code.
In the 2016 election, 10 members of the Electoral College ultimately voted in bad faith, the first time since 1808. Two Trump electors voted for former Republican Governor John Kasich of Ohio and former Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, while several Hillary Clinton electors voted for former Secretary of State Colin Powell and one vote went for Native American activist Faith Spotted Eagle in Washington.
In response to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation, Tribe wrote:[t]There is no contradiction here… The problem of unfaithful electors has nothing to do with the duty not to lie under oath about being elected as an elector, or the non-existent right to make false and fraudulent claims that you met at the State Capitol for the electoral vote. ”
Eisen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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