Democrat AGs Mayes and Kaul pursue lawfare against Trump backers over 2020

The 2020 election ended six years ago. However, two power-hungry Democratic attorneys general who are up for re-election next year, Chris Mayes of Arizona and Josh Kaul of Wisconsin, are continuing their legal war against Trump supporters who have legally challenged the election. These shameful cases must end immediately.

President Trump and many supporters found numerous inconsistencies with the 2020 election. They challenged the results in several hotly contested states. the First Amendment The Canvassing Act of 1887 allowed for such challenges — just as Democrats challenged Republican presidential victories in 1968, 2000, 2004, and 2016. Leftists maliciously claimed that rivals had introduced “fake electors” as part of efforts to overturn the results certified in these states.

Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayes and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul are considering next steps in their 2020 sham election prosecutions. (Mario Tama/Daniel Poczarski/Getty Images for the Wisconsin Democratic Party)

This is complete nonsense. No one was deceived by their intentions Alternative voters. Rudy Giuliani didn’t have the “real” voters tied up in his box while sending out the “fake” voters.

The lists of electors submitted were replacement electors in the event that Congress, on January 6, 2021, upheld objections to voter certification in the disputed states.

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In 2022, Democrat Mayes defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by less than 300 votes, becoming Arizona Attorney General. She immediately began pursuing illegal legal warfare against Trump supporters. Mark Brnovich, the former prosecutor, did not take any action against those who questioned the 2020 elections, because he admitted that they had not committed any crimes. Mayes didn’t care and requested indictments against Arizona’s 11 alternate electors and seven other defendants, including Mike Roman, President Trump’s election day campaign chief of operations.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, December 15, 2023. (Jose Luis Magana, File/AP)

The Maricopa County Circuit Court properly dismissed the indictment and ordered Mayes to seek a new indictment. Mayes did not provide the grand jury with the full text of the ballot counting law, a complex and arcane law that has a direct bearing on the case. If the law permitted the defendants’ actions, the state could not sustain its case. Federal election law preempts state law regarding federal elections. The law was so complex that Congress amended it a few years ago with the Electoral Count Reform Act.

Mayes hurried over Arizona Court of Appeals. That court wisely declined to hear her appeal. It has now petitioned the Arizona Supreme Court for review. The justices should follow the wise leadership of the Court of Appeals and decline to hear Mayes’ appeal.

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Mayes is the same prosecutor who threatened to investigate President Trump over a supposed death threat against former Rep. Liz Cheney — a deranged Trump renault — during a campaign rally in Phoenix. Of course, Trump made no such threat, and Mays abandoned her position shortly after the president’s landslide victory last November.

Wisconsin is suffering too From a partisan Democratic attorney general seeking re-election. In 2024, nearly four years after the end of the 2020 election, Cowell, a radical leftist like Mays, obtained indictments against three defendants, including Roman and two of Trump’s lawyers.

The facts were the same as in Arizona, except that Cowell did not impeach the ten alternate electors in Wisconsin. The defendants now face A Initial hearing In Dane County, a leftist stronghold that includes the state capital and the ultra-liberal University of Wisconsin-Madison, they face intense pressure to find a fair and impartial jury.

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A preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 15. One defendant has sought the recusal of Judge John Hyland, alleging that a retired judge named Frank Remington wrote the opinion denying the defense’s motion to dismiss. The recusal motion included support from an expert at Georgetown who concluded that, based on the writing styles, Remington had written the opinion. Hyland denied the request to resign and confirmed that he wrote the opinion.

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. (Julia Demaree Nickinson/AP Photo)

Regardless of how the preliminary hearing goes, the case must end. Cowell made the accusations, after the facts had been known for four years, in the middle of the 2024 election, in which Wisconsin was a pivotal swing state. We can’t Criminalization of politics.

There was another embarrassment for the prosecution when it brought charges against a slew of defendants over the 2020 election in Georgia: Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis. Her case was derailed when it became public, thanks to Roman’s attorney Ashley Merchant, that Willis was having an affair with one of the special prosecutors she hired, Nathan Wade, who received nearly $700,000 from Fulton County taxpayers. Wade spent most of it on Willis, giving her lavish world trips. The lovers claimed that Willis had compensated Wade, but there was no corroborating evidence. Georgia courts Willis and the special prosecutor who replaced her were disqualified Case dismissed Earlier this month.

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Lawfare Democrats failed to imprison, bankrupt, or defeat Trump electorally. They are trying to get one last pound of flesh from some of the president’s former aides and supporters. If Mayes and Cowell don’t follow the great example set by the special prosecutor in Georgia and bring them down Mock casesthe courts in Arizona and Wisconsin should.

the Ministry of Justice Charges should also be pursued against these affronts to the legal profession for conspiracy to violate the civil rights of these lawfare victims under Title 18, United States Code, Section 241. After all, as we heard so much during the lawfare campaign against President Trump, no one is above the law.