Attorney General Kris Mayes, who is prosecuting the alternate electors for Donald Trump from 2020 as well as Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby for delaying the canvassing of that election due to election irregularities, may find herself on the other side of prosecution. Founder Mike Davis of the Article III Project, which defends constitutionalist judges and the rule of law, posted on X that Mayes could go to prison due to obstructing the incoming president.
He said, “Dear @AZAGMayes: You disenfranchised AZ voters and stole your election from @AbrahamHamadeh. Now you’re plotting to overturn the will of American voters and illegally obstruct President Trump’s immigration mandate? Want to go to prison? 8 U.S.C. § 132.”
He included a link to an article in The Guardian about Mayes stating she will oppose one of Trump’s policies on illegal immigration. The Biden administration has looked the other way at illegal immigrants up to the age of 18, even though many of them recently came into the country alone and on their own, close to adult age. Trump attempted to stop the lawbreaking, which began as a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) under President Barack Obama, but a narrow decision by the Supreme Court prevented him.
Republican states filed a lawsuit in 2023 challenging the policy, objecting to the Biden administration’s attempt to codify it into law. A trial court judge agreed, and the case is now on appeal at the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. It is very likely to end up at the Supreme Court, where the makeup of justices has shifted to the right due to Trump’s appointments.
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