People cast their votes at Meadows Mall during election day for the midterm elections in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 8, 2022.
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A Nevada judge on Friday dismissed a case against six false electors who declared former President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.
Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled from the bench that the state had filed the case in the wrong jurisdiction, the state attorney general’s office confirmed to NBC News.
A spokesperson for the office said the state’s top prosecutor “will be appealing immediately.”
The judge’s decision comes after a grand jury in December indicted six Republicans as part of a probe into the 2020 presidential election.
Among those charged included Nevada State Party GOP chair Michael McDonald and vice chair and national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, who have both previously appeared before a criminal grand jury investigating the Capitol riot.
Slates of fake electors for the former president were also organized and charges have been brought in other battleground states like Michigan and Georgia.
Earlier this month three men in Wisconsin were charged in the fake electors scheme to keep Trump in office.
A state grand jury in Arizona also indicted former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and other Trump aides in April, along with a series of false electors, in connection with an investigation into alleged efforts by the former president and his allies to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory in that state in 2020.
