A Nevada judge just threw out the so-called fake electors criminal case against six state Republicans.
Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled on Thursday that prosecutors completely failed to prove the defendants had any intention to commit fraud, as reported by multiple outlets. And here is the kicker that makes this whole saga absolutely delicious. The six Republicans who signed documents claiming Trump won Nevada back in 2020 did the whole thing out in the open. They gathered right outside the state legislature. They held press conferences. They told everyone exactly what they were up to and why.
Turns out, that little detail keeps blowing up these prosecutions from the inside.
Judge Holthus, a nonpartisan jurist, spelled it out plainly in her ruling. She noted that because the defendants publicly announced both their actions and their stated reasoning, rather than hiding their behavior or trying to secretly trick government officials, there was no reasonable way to conclude they acted with criminal intent.
This is now the SECOND time a judge has tossed one of these cases on virtually identical grounds. Michigan's version collapsed in 2025 for the exact same reason. Georgia's massive prosecution basically imploded under its own bloated weight, the district attorney got disqualified, and the charges were eventually abandoned. Arizona keeps slamming into procedural brick walls and is now attempting a do-over with a fresh grand jury. Wisconsin still has a pending matter involving Trump campaign lawyers.
Five states. Multiple prosecutorial offices. Years upon years of legal maneuvering. Millions upon millions in taxpayer money burned through. And the grand total of successful convictions on these core fake elector charges? A big fat zero.
Now, every single attorney general who brought these cases happened to be a Democrat. Nevada's Aaron Ford. Michigan. Georgia. Arizona's Kris Mayes. Wisconsin. All ran with the same legal theory. All crashed and burned or are currently crashing and burning. Every single one hit the same fundamental problem, which is that the defendants never concealed a thing.
Fraud requires deception. Fraud requires someone being tricked. You simply cannot defraud people who are watching you do the thing on live television while you explain it into a microphone.
Was the alternate elector strategy legally questionable? Sure. Was it a failed political gambit? Absolutely. But prosecuting people for openly pursuing what they believed was a legitimate legal avenue is not the same as catching criminals red handed.
Nevada's AG Ford has already announced he plans to appeal. Arizona's Mayes is dragging her case before a brand new grand jury. These prosecutors are not backing down just because courts keep slamming doors in their faces.
But those doors keep slamming. State after state. Same theory. Same outcome.
We are now in 2026. That is six full years after the 2020 election. Zero convictions to show for it. At a certain point, the question stops being about legal merit and starts being about political motivation. And that question is getting louder by the day.
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