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Hugo Lowell in Atlanta

Fake Trump electors case should stay in Fulton county court, prosecutors argue

Exterior view of the Fulton county courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia.
Exterior view of the Fulton county courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Fulton county prosecutors argued at a court hearing on Wednesday that three fake Trump electors seeking to transfer their criminal cases for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia should have their requests denied as they were not federal officials and thus ineligible.

The prosecutors cited past comments made by supreme court justices to contend that merely performing a role in a federal election did not make them federal officials and, in any case, they were not even the duly elected electors for the state because Donald Trump lost.

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