The House Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has issued subpoenas for 14 Republicans from seven states who served on bogus slates of Trump electors in 2020 as part of the Trump campaign’s scheme to subvert the Electoral College in order to stay in office.
The GOP officials from the states served as “Chair” and “Secretary” on the slates of fake electors designed to be “alternates” should Republicans succeed in denying the certifications of the actual electoral votes that were won by Joe Biden, CNN reports.
The scheme didn’t work, and then-Vice President Mike Pence certified the election results on January 6 when the congressional session reconvened after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the committee, said the Panel is “seeking information about attempts in multiple states to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including the planning and coordination of efforts to send false slates of electors to the National Archives,” according to CNN.
“We believe the individuals we have subpoenaed today have information about how these so-called alternate electors met and who was behind that scheme.”
As noted by CNN, the committee received all 700-plus pages from the National Archives last week that were previously tied up in litigation after the Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump could not block House investigators from receiving them.
According to CNN, the committee subpoenaed the following chairperson and secretary of each group of so-called alternate electors. Each state pair is listed as chairperson and secretary respectively:
Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino from Arizona, David Shafer and Shawn Still from Georgia, Kathy Berden and Mayra Rodriguez from Michigan, Jewll Powdrell and Deborah Maestas from New Mexico, Michael McDonald and James DeGraffenreid from Nevada, Bill Bachenberg and Lisa Patton from Pennsylvania, and Andrew Hitt and Kelly Ruh from Wisconsin.
