New Mexico’s top prosecutor said Friday that the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race.
However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is making recommendations to state lawmakers that he says would enhance the security of the state’s electoral process and provide legal authority for prosecuting similar conduct in the future.
New Mexico is one of several states where Republican electors attempted to cast ballots indicating that Trump had won, a strategy at the center of criminal charges against Trump and his associates. Democratic officials launched separate investigations in some states, resulting in indictments against GOP electors.
seems like this is akin to the same “qualified immunity” crap that cops have. I don’t give a fuck if there’s not a state law written specifically addressing this particular instance of participating in a fraudulent scheme to overturn the results of a legitimate election. Every other state where this happened the fake electors are facing federal charges.
Except here, in New Mexico, where the democrat attorney general for the state decided that THEY would do a state investigation instead of throwing it up to the federal level. It is within this narrow window that he decided they can’t prosecute them. Raul Torrez. This man. He’s the one making the decision to not go for federal charges. He is the person responsible for letting these people off the hook.
I’m pretty sure forging government documents is illegal everywhere, both at the state and federal level. They just don’t want to prosecute, otherwise they’d “find” a law to apply to this.