New Mexico’s top prosecutor said Friday that the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race.
However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is making recommendations to state lawmakers that he says would enhance the security of the state’s electoral process and provide legal authority for prosecuting similar conduct in the future.
New Mexico is one of several states where Republican electors attempted to cast ballots indicating that Trump had won, a strategy at the center of criminal charges against Trump and his associates. Democratic officials launched separate investigations in some states, resulting in indictments against GOP electors.
Complicit.
You’d prefer he make up laws?
Fraud is still illegal.
According to state law, they didn’t commit fraud.
That’s the point of the article
Article doesn’t mention fraud at all.
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What do you think filing false paperwork constitutes?
So is fraud legal in New Mexico, or only if you’re a Republican and the AG doesn’t want to pursue the case?
Why are you saying he doesn’t want to pursue the case?
Because that’s what the article says. There are absolutely charges that could be brought against them. Fraud, for one.
Because I’m not giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Fraud is a crime. If he doesn’t want to be called complicit, he can stop being complicit.
Are you complicit because you have no legal way to do anything about it?