On Tuesday, Nessel called Simmons’ ruling “disappointing” and said her office would determine whether or not there would be an appeal. She also claimed the defendants lied and tried to steal millions of votes belonging to Michigan residents, NBC News reported Tuesday.

She then went further and said, “And if they can get away with this, well, what can they get away with next?”

Breitbart News reported in July of 2023 that Nessel announced forgery charges against 16 alternate electors for Trump in 2020 “despite existing precedent — by Democrats — in using alternate electors.”

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Nessel, a highly partisan figure who urged President Joe Biden to close a crucial local oil pipeline, and once joked that she wanted “a drag queen for every school,” announced the charges, which are the first of their kind.

The Trump campaign created several slates of alternate electors. This was not an attempt to create “fake” or “fraudulent” electors to fool authorities, but rather to provide a legal remedy in the event the election results were overturned. The fear was that if a court, or a state legislature, invalidated the Electoral College vote of Michigan or another closely contested state, those votes would not be awarded to Trump without electors.