MADISON – Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan is asking the U.S. attorney general to investigate 10 Wisconsin Republicans who met in the weeks following the 2020 election and submitted paperwork to federal officials that falsely claimed Donald Trump defeated Joe Biden.
Pocan's letter comes days after a Milwaukee County prosecutor said Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is best suited to investigate the matter. Kaul has not said whether he will.
"With less than one year remaining before the next federal elections, it is imperative that the Department of Justice act on this matter to deter other officials who may seek to engage in election fraud," Pocan wrote in a Friday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for an interview.
On Dec. 14, 2020, Republicans secretly gathered in the state Capitol to sign formal-looking paperwork that purported they were the state's 10 electors.
They signed official-looking documents stating Trump had won even though the state Supreme Court had ruled just an hour earlier that Biden was the victor. They sent the material to the U.S. Senate, the National Archives, Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette and a federal judge.
"I had to put it in a drawer someplace. It's still somewhere hidden away I suppose," La Follette said.
Attorney Jeff Mandell of Law Forward, a nonprofit law firm focused on redistricting and election litigation, said in a news...
The Kristo Asafo Mission of Ghana has rejected claims that former Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo, was shot during an incident at the church’s property at Kwabenya, describing...