Alternate Trump Electors Push Back Against State Racketeering Charges in Federal Court

Alternate Trump electors urged a judge to hear state charges in federal court, while a state lawyer insisted the prosecution was not motivated by politics.
Alternate Trump Electors Push Back Against State Racketeering Charges in Federal Court
The Richard B. Russell Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Atlanta, Ga., on Sept. 20, 2023. Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
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ATLANTA–Three alternate presidential electors who argue their efforts to support former President Donald Trump in Georgia in the 2020 election were shielded by federal law, urged a federal judge on Sept. 20 not to return state racketeering charges against them to state court.

The federal removal hearing before Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia is apparently the first test in federal court of alternate electors’ argument that they are immune to state prosecution because they were acting as federal officers. The judge was appointed in 2011 by President Barack Obama.

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