Federal prosecutors can’t do everything, as Michigan’s attorney general understands, writes DennisAftergut. And it's vital that state and local officials must also be held to account.
,” are alleged to have illegally obtained a voting machine in a wildly ill-advised attempt to prove election fraud that, despite Trump and his allies’ pronouncements, did not exist. A nation that holds secure elections cannot allow self-deputized vigilantes improperly seizing possession of voting machines under false pretenses.
Accountability is the foundation of the rule of law, in principle and in practice. Michigan’s special prosecutor has just affirmed that principle.Federal prosecutors can’t do everything, as Michigan’s attorney general understands. And make no mistake, culpable state and local officials must also be held to account. Otherwise they could distort elections in 2024 and the future — no matter how Trump’s presidential campaign fares.
So far, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has taken an impressively proactive approach. On July 18, a grand jury under her oversight . That fraudulent elector scheme, as well as the plot to seize voting machines, are two strands of the larger conspiracy.
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