Madison, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin Judge on Friday refused to dismiss the charges against two lawyers and former assistant President Donald Trump, who in 2020. He advised Trump as a plan to falsely claim that the Republican won the battle site that year.
John Hyland, Judge of the Dane County County, has rejected the proposals to reject the 11 charges filed against the three defendants. The accusations are for the use of forgery in an attempt to deceive each of the 10 Republican voters who gave their votes to Trump that year.
Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s lawyer in Wisconsin, Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who advised the campaign, and in 2020. Mike Roman, Director of D. Trump’s Election Day, was initially accused of 2024. June
Each of the 11 charges they face is the same maximum sentence of six -year prison and $ 10,000.
“TROUPIS does not show that the first amendment protects the right to commit to the creation, does not show that the government has violated its right to the right process by involving it in forgery, and does not show that prosecutors have to exercise their discretion to blame the accused of their desired crime,” the judge said.
The lawyers of each accused did not immediately respond to the email. Letters looking for a comment.
The charges were raised by Attorney General Josh Bone, Democrat. The bone is considering candidacy for the governor in 2026. He refused to comment.
Trump won Wisconsin in 2016. And again last year, but lost it in 2020. And unsuccessfully tried to eliminate the defeat.
The only accusations of the state of the state of Wisconsin to Trump’s lawyers and helpers are the only ones. None of the voters were accused. 10 Wisconsin voters, Chesebro and TROUPIS, all settled a lawsuit that was filed in 2023.
Federal prosecutors who investigated Trump’s behavior related to 2021. January 6, the US Capitol Riot, said the fake voter scheme originated in Wisconsin.
Voters are appointed to represent voters in the presidential election. The winner of the popular voting in each state determines which party voters are sent to the Electoral College, which meets in December after the election to confirm the result. Two states, Mein and Nebraska, allow their election votes to be divided between candidates.
The Wisconsin’s complaint details how Troupis, Chesebro and Roman created a document that falsely stated that Trump won 10 votes of the Wisconsin College and then tried to submit to the then Vice President Mike Pents.
They argued that the charges should be dismissed because no crimes were committed, as Republican voters would meet and gave a vote to preserve their legal capabilities in the event of a US Supreme Court in favor of Trump’s claim, which contested the Visconsin vote.
They also argued that federal laws should be complied with in the present case and that such accusations cannot be lawfully imported into the State Court.
They also argued that the facts did not show a crime, as well as that only the county district lawyer, not the State Prosecutor General, could cause prosecution for election crimes.
The judge rejected all their arguments.
Prosecutors in Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Arizona also filed criminal charges related to the scheme of fake voters.
The fake voters’ efforts were the main 2023. According to Trump, the federal rectal indictment of the indictment was attempted to be abolished by 2020. Election results. However, Special Advisor Jack Smith refused the case, saying that the return of the Trump to the White House did not allow him to try to prosecute him federally.