Pre-Trial Conferences Held for Some Indicted Michigan GOP Electors

The case against the slate of Michigan 2020 GOP presidential electors is proceeding through the courts. After an Aug. 18 pre-trial conference most of the 16 Trump supporters were assigned dates for probable cause hearings in late October.

Electors from the GOP are denied entry to the Michigan Capital as the Electors from the Democrat Party cast their ballot in Lansing, Mich., on Dec. 14, 2020. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

It was a busy procedural day on Aug. 18 for the city of Lansing’s 54-A District Court Judge Kristen Simmons.

Judge Simmons presided over multiple Zoom hearings to set future court dates for some of the 16 Michigan Republican 2020 presidential electors.