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In reply to the discussion: Trump campaign documents give inside look at fake-elector plan [View all]BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)and I know when prior "elected officials" were indicted for various crimes, it has taken about that long to get all the evidence and go for it.
For example, something recently involving people like Jeff Fortenberry and in his case, he committed his crime back in 2016 but they had to trace it back to who else was involved. I.e., Darryl Issa might also be part of that case as well. Fortenberry finally resigned just under 3 months ago when found guilty during his trial.
In the case of the current - the ones who go about initiating it would be the U.S. Attorneys for the localities and there are 93 of them who over the past "year and a half" have been undergoing a process of dislodging the 45 ones and replacing them (requiring Senate confirmation) with Biden appointees.
So for example, for the states entangled in this election fraud, the U.S. Attorneys were appointed/confirmed as follows -
U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Gary M. Restaino November 23, 2021
(Confirmed November 19, 2021, by voice vote)
GEORGIA (2 vacancies, neither confirmed, out of 3 total nominees)
U.S. Attorney for the M.D. of Georgia Peter D. Leary November 17, 2021
U.S. Attorney for the N.D. of Georgia Ryan K. Buchanan May 2, 2022
(Confirmed April 27, 2022, by voice vote)
U.S. Attorney for the S.D. of Georgia David H. Estes December 3, 2021
MICHIGAN
U.S. Attorney for the E.D. of Michigan Dawn N. Ison, December 21, 2021
(Confirmed December 14, 2021, by voice vote)
U.S. Attorney for the W.D. Michigan Mark Totten[12] May 5, 2022
(Confirmed April 27, 2022, by voice vote
NEVADA
U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada Jason Frierson May 11, 2022
(Confirmed April 27, 2022, by voice vote)
NEW MEXICO
U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico Alexander M.M. Uballez May 24, 2022
(Confirmed May 17, 2022 by voice vote)
PENNSYLVANIA
U.S. Attorney for the E.D. of Pennsylvania Jacqueline C. Romero
(Confirmed June 13, 2022 by voice vote)
U.S. Attorney for the M.D. of Pennsylvania Gerard Karam
(Confirmed June 13, 2022 by voice vote)
U.S. Attorney for the W.D. of Pennsylvania Cindy K. Chung November 23, 2021
(Confirmed November 19, 2021, by voice vote)
WISCONSIN (2 vacancies - neither confirmed yet)
U.S. Attorney for the E.D. of Wisconsin Gregory Haanstad Announced June 6, 2022
U.S. Attorney for the W.D. of Wisconsin Sopen Shah Announced June 6, 2022
And since per the Constitution, "states" are responsible for elections, you do have 2 of the states - Michigan and New Mexico, which referred the issue to their U.S. Attorneys.
In the case of the other 5 - both AZ and GA have GOP SOS's (so assume a referral would never happen, although GA is already doing their own investigation of the shakedown), the (D) NV Attorney General refused to confirm or deny an investigation. WI has no U.S. Attorneys confirmed yet (so either District has the old ones still there or more likely, actings) and my AG here in PA Josh Shapiro had earlier tweeted dismissing their nonsense (he was actually one of the electors here in PA) -
Link to tweet
@JoshShapiroPA
As I told @jaketapper earlier today -- logical thinking doesn't apply to the ridiculous charades we're seeing from Trump & his enablers.
No Pennsylvania legislator has authority to change our electors. They have no legal ability to change the outcome.
5:15 PM · Dec 14, 2020
and he indicated that their version had "conditions" included, which self-nullifies it. Apparently the other states didn't have such language (although.another that may have had conditional language IIRC from back then)
IMHO they need to go after them ALL but I expect the other 5 or 6 states of 7 (with PA being that outlier and possibly another), will be getting the worst of it.