Three attorneys — one of whom is a Hillsdale College vice president — pressured state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey after the 2020 election to award Michigan’s electoral votes to former President Donald Trump rather than President Joe Biden, Shirkey told a U.S. House committee.
The Clarklake Republican told the U.S. House Jan. 6 committee in June that he was pressured to submit an alternate slate of electors during meetings with Hillsdale College Vice President Robert Norton, Grand Rapids attorney Ian Northon and Amistad Project Director Phill Kline, who is the former Kansas attorney general, according an interview transcript released Tuesday.
Shirkey said he denied the requests because it would have violated Michigan law.
“I’m not going to suggest to you that there were specific threats, but the pressure was real and the expectations were, for the most part, unambiguous,” he said in a June interview.
Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Laura Cox also has said Norton informed her of plans to have Michigan Republican electors hide in the Capitol overnight from Dec. 13, 2020 through Dec. 14, 2020 so they could cast their vote for Trump in the state House — a plan Cox called "insane and inappropriate."
Instead a group of Republican electors tried to gain entrance to the Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020 as Democratic electors met to cast their votes for Joe Biden. They were rejected by security officials since Biden had won Michigan.
Hillsdale College, a private conservative...
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