Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday that she has filed charges against 16 people who signed paperwork falsely claiming that President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election as part of a scheme to overturn the results.

US presidents are technically voted in by slates of electors from each state who cast their votes for the candidate selected by their states’ popular vote. In December 2020, as Trump tried to overturn the results of the election, his allies prepared alternative slates of electors in several states.

These appear to be the first charges filed against fake electors.

The announcement

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The Texas Senate is expected to begin Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial Sept. 5.

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Tony Buzbee, lead attorney for suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has his way with words — as evidenced by his recent statement explaining his client’s decision not to testify in his upcoming Senate impeachment trial.

“We will not bow to their evil, illegal, and unprecedented weaponization of state power in the Senate chamber,” Buzbee said of the Texas House, which voted in May to impeach Paxton.

Talk about

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey spoke at the Springfield Chamber of Commerce on Thursday as a part of the chamber’s Public Policy Speaker Series.

Attorney General Bailey hit his six-month mark since swearing in as attorney general on July 3. He shared the accomplishments of his office. At the start, cracking down on St. Louis area crime was a goal for Attorney General Bailey. He said over 500 businesses had left the St. Louis area in the last few years due to crime.

“One of the biggest issues I came into the office wanting to tackle

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NY Appellate Court Dismisses SEQRA and Consistency with LWRP and Zoning Ordinance Claims Finding the Matter Moot

The attorney who recently withdrew from former president Donald Trump’s case regarding his alleged mishandling of classified documents has now also withdrawn from Mr Trump’s lawsuit against CNN.

James Trusty sent a motion to withdraw as an attorney to the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday, asking to pull out of the case.

“Mr Trusty’s withdrawal is based on irreconcilable differences between Counsel and Plaintiff and Counsel can no longer effectively and properly represent plaintiff,” the motion read. The motion said that Mr Trusty’s withdrawal did not adversely affect Mr Trump as oral arguments on

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter pleading them to further inspect the PGA Tour’s deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to house commercial operations under a new entity.

In the letter, which was obtained by ESPN, Warren and Wyden wrote the deal would “enable the Saudi government’s efforts to ‘sports wash’ its egregious human rights record” and “raises an array of potential legal and regulatory issues, including relating to the PGA Tour’s non-profit tax status and antitrust law.”

The senators argued the

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Respondent submitted a major site plan application to the City of Buffalo Planning Board seeking approval of the construction of four apartment buildings. On November 8, 2021, the Planning Board issued a negative declaration pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act and a waterfront consistency review finding that the project was consistent with the City of Buffalo’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program. On January 10, 2022, the Planning Board voted to approve the site plan with conditions. On March 6, 2022 Petitioners commenced an Article 78 proceeding seeking to annul the waterfront

The Petitioner challenges the determination of the Town of Tonawanda (Town), which authorized the condemnation of property owned by the petitioner following a public hearing. The property, situated along the Niagara River, includes a coal-fired electric generating station that was decommissioned in 2016 and water intake structures. Petitioner commenced proceeding No. 1 asserting that the Town failed to publish a brief synopsis of its determination and findings within 90 days as required by EDPL 204 (A) and asserting various other grounds for relief. Shortly thereafter the Town published its determination and findings pursuant to EDPL 204 (A) and petitioner then